Taken together, the power lens brings a critical eye to the ways in Power lens on police reform promotes a particular view of contestatoryĭemocracy, one in which democratic policing has as one of its objectives theįacilitation of countervailing power for those subject to the domination of the Second, power shifting is a means of promoting antisubordination,īased on the idea that it is wrong for the state to engage in practices thatĮnforce the inferior social status of historically oppressed groups. Shifts power downward toward populations who have been denied political powerĭirectly as a result of the history of policing policies and practices in their
Shifting power to policed populations is reparative, in the sense that it Theoretical account of why the power lens is an important and necessaryĪddition to how scholars and reformers view the regulation of policing. Police at both the local and national levels. These recent pushes by social movements for power shifting surface a fundamental set of questions about the very purpose of police reform, adding a new way for scholars and reformers to think about the contours and objectives of the state’s provision of safety and security-what this Article terms the power lens.Īrticle examines the movement focus on power shifting in the governance of the In recent years, within this time of foment and possibility, social movements have been proposing, creating, and sometimes establishing new governance arrangements that shift power over policing to those who have been most harmed by mass criminalization and mass incarceration. These conversations have increased in volume and urgency in response to the 2020 national uprising against police violence, when radical demands born within social movements have gained steam-demands to defund the police, to institute “people’s budgets,” and to give communities control over the state provision of security.
Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different configurations for how the state can design policing institutions.
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