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Phantombilder. Die Polizei und der verdächtige Fremde (The Police And The Suspicious Stranger)
Nautilus Flugschrift
by Georgiana Banita
“Phantombilder“ (German for “facial composites” or “identikit sketches”, meaning literally “phantomimages“) is an analysis of police violence and institutional racism from a Cultural Studies viewpoint –and a plea for a constructive debateAfter the assassinations of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the USA, the need for a durable change inthe mentality of the police hat become obvious – worldwide. For Europe, too, the question arises: How toexplain the extent of police violence and police discrimination against people of color? Where to start theurgently needed changes for a new police culture?In her essay, Georgiana Banita shows: The powerful image of the “stranger” has always been a target andeven the ideological foundation of Western police apparatus. The narrative of the suspicious, potentiallydangerous “stranger” was at he origin and still is the backdrop of a general police suspicion against peoplewith a migration background, black people and people of color.In the USA, for example, the police introduced lethal firearms only after the abolition of slavery in order todiscipline freed slaves, and Europe also militarized its police force as a result of migration from rural and colonialareas to the industrial centers. Banita‘s analysis on the use of firearms, racial profiling, computer searchesand AI-supported crime prognoses, on deportation, border protection and infection protectionshows: The logic and practices of police control architectures cannot be imagined without the idea of a necessarydefense from the (supposed) foreigner.“Phantombilder” unfolds a cultural history of police suspicion and creates the basis for a constructive debatethat we urgently need.
