Q Policing: Lgbtq+ Experiences, Perspectives, and Passions (Perspectives on Crime and Justice) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0809339560 ISBN 13: 9780809339563

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 2024

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Global perspectives on policing within LGBTQ+ communities

Relationships between law enforcement and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities have always been varied and complex. On one hand, history is filled with incidents of police harassment: raids that sparked famous uprisings and rebellions; shoddy police investigations into the murders of LGBTQ+ community members; a corrosive organizational culture marked by heteronormativity and misogyny. Yet positive changes are being made, such as the creation of LGBTQ+ police associations, participation by police officers in Pride Parades around the world, and formal apologies for past actions. To some LGBTQ+ community members, police are the physical manifestations of state-sanctioned oppression and abuse. To others, they are guardians who have become partners in public safety.

Q Policing features eighteen contributors from around the world who explore the nature of the relationship between LGBTQ+ communities and the police. Part 1 of the book offers insights on policing and racial and ethnic constructions, including efforts to build collaborative models of community-building within groups and with law enforcement. Part 2 highlights the experiences of individuals who may be marginalized due to various social constructions such as transgender, unhoused, southern, or kink-involved. Finally, Part 3 shares perspectives of queer folks inside policing.

The contributors—scholars, social workers, police officers, and other community leaders—cover diverse topics, including queer experiences of policing in southern India, clinical implications for mental health professionals working with Latinx LGBTQ+ people, transgender and nonbinary peoples’ presentation management during encounters with law enforcement, discriminatory policies in place in the southern United States, the pathologization of kink, and more. Essays analyze interviews with the “Pride Defenders” in Hamilton, Canada, as well as British and American police officers transitioning while in uniform. They explore the experiences of gay, lesbian, and genderqueer police officers, map principal findings and central concerns that structure extant scholarship on gay police officers in the UK, use queer theory to explore the effectiveness of LGBTQ+ liaisons, and more.

The volume editors adopt an inclusive global perspective to account for contextually located experiences of queer people within and outside of the United States. The book incorporates a variety of voices, data sources, and methodologies, but contributors share an intentional focus on race, age, sex, gender, and other identities that helps explain and contextualize queer people’s experiences around and in policing. The diverse, international group of contributors—whose voices are not often heard in traditional outlets and mainstream media—demonstrates that despite discrimination, harassment, and violence, LGBTQ+ communities continue to thrive.

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Roddrick Colvin is professor of public administration and director of the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. His research has appeared in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, Police Quarterly, and Women and Criminal Justice. He is the author of Gay and Lesbian Cops: Diversity and Effective Policing. 

Angela Dwyer is associate professor in policing and emergency management at the University of Tasmania. Her research on LGBTQ-police relations helped found the queer criminology discipline and she was awarded the Richard Tewksbury Award by the Western Society of Criminology 2022-2023 for this work. She is the lead editor of Queering Criminology. 

Sulaimon Giwa is associate professor of social work and police studies, as well as the interim dean of the School of Social Work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. He is the coauthor of the second edition of Transforming Community Policing: Mobilization, Engagement, and Collaboration. 

Contributions by Roberto L. Abreu, Dhanya Babu, Koree S. Badio, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Alexa DeGagne, Nicole Elias, Tyson Marlow, Julio A. Martin, Sean A. McCandless, Seth J. Meyer, Paige L. Moore, Lauren Moton, Max Osborn, Heather Panter, Leah Rouse, Nick Rumens, Mitchell D. Sellers, and Emma L. Turley.

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Introduction

Many communities can claim fraught relations with the police, while others can claim easier relations, yet few communities have experienced such a complex and confusing relationship as the one between the police and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities. Recent history is replete with contradictory interactions, approaches, and policies, often resulting in targeted discrimination, harassment, and violence against LGBTQ+ community members and spaces. On one side of the ledger, we see incidents of police harassment via raids that sparked famous riots and rebellions like the Compton Cafeteria riot in San Francisco in 1966; the Toronto bathhouse raids, “Operation Soap” in 1981; the 21 Club raid in Belfast in 1982; and the Puppy Palace raids in Melbourne in 1994. We see shoddy police investigations like the investigations into the still unresolved death of Masha P. Johnson in 1992 in New York; the murder investigation of transgender man Brandon Teena in 1993; or the response and investigation into the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.?

On the other side of the ledger, more positive actions and interactions are documented, including the creation of LGBTQ+-focused police associations like the Gay Officers’ Action League (GOAL) in 1993; the creation of community-based LGBTQ+ policing units like the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) in Washington, DC in 2000; the recruitment and selection of India’s first transgender police officer, Prithika Yashini in 2017; participation by police officers in Pride Parades around the world, police services developing and implementing LGBTQ+ recruitment efforts for new officers (for example in the UK, New Zealand, and Los Angeles), and formal apologies for past actions (for example, the New York Police Department’s 2019 apology for the Stonewall raid, and New South Wales Police Force’s 2016 apology for its actions during the first Sydney Mardi Gras in 1978, where 53 people were arrested).

Recently, some LGBTQ+ communities have accused police services of “pink-washing.”? In this context, pink-washing is the strategy of supporting and promoting LGBTQ+ rights and protections as evidence of openness, legitimacy, and accountability while continuing to discriminate, harass, and exert violence on and inside communities (Blackmer, 2019). LGBTQ+ community members point to the higher disappearance and murder rate for transgender people, disparate traffic stops, the use of force and excessive force against people of color, and a persistent and corrosive organizational culture marked by heteronormativity and misogyny as evidence of continued police malady. As a result, police officers and police departments are being disinvited to participate in community-based events, like Pride Parades. In some cases, officers have been banned from recruiting at universities due to their discriminatory practices.

From police raids to professional associations to social isolation, police officers and services evoke strong emotions and differing perspectives within LGBTQ+ communities. To some, they remain guardians who have become partners in community and public safety. To others, they are the physical manifestation of state-sanctioned oppression and abuse.?

It is within this context that we developed Q Policing. In this edited volume, we have brought together a diverse group of scholars and community leaders, including academics, former police officers, social workers, and community activists, to ponder the varied and complicated relationship that LGBTQ+ communities have with police and law enforcement. This edited volume expands the conversation using a variety of voices, sources of data, and methodologies.? Central to this approach is an intentional focus on race, age, sex, gender, and other characteristics and identities that help explain and contextualize people’s lived experiences. As such, this book is one of the first to try to bring a more systematic study and understanding of these relationships and the experiences of those inside and outside of policing.

How This Book Is Organized

We divide the book into three major parts. Part one of the book contains chapters on the intersections of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and policing. The chapters explore the differences and similarities between the lives of LGBTQ+ people. Their experiences are unique and strikingly similar, particularly regarding the police’s hostile treatment of community members.

In Chapter 1, Babu and Blount-Hill acknowledge that most previous literature on LGBTQ+ communities and police relations has focused on the Global North. Their focus on India reminds us of the importance of decentering the singular, Western narrative about LGBTQ+ people and experiences and invites us to seek knowledge through a more global approach.

?In Chapter 2, Martin, Badio, Marlow, and Abreu ask us to consider the intersection of ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender expression and law enforcement. The authors highlight immigration policy as an additional consideration when considering the experiences of some Latinx LGBTQ+ individuals and communities. The authors make a case for law enforcement-free spaces. These spaces could help promote collective healing and well-being in communities exposed to police violence and abuse.

In Chapter 3, author DeGagne explains how white supremacy and poor cultural competencies can put Two-Spirit(a third or different gender identity for LGBTQ+ Native American/Indigenous persons who eschew the Western notion of binary categories for sex and gender)  and other LGBTQ+ community members at additional and unnecessary risk for harassment and violence.

When taken as a whole, these chapters shed light on the multifaceted nature of encounters between police and members of the LGBTQ+ communities. They show how negative interactions with police exacerbate loss of trust in the criminal processing system. They also highlight the unique role that race and ethnicity play in shaping our understanding of community and policing.

Part two of the book intersects with marginalities, exploring the experiences and perspectives of LGBTQ+ people through lenses other than race and ethnicity. Here, the authors highlight the experiences of individuals who may be marginalized based on their social construction as transgender, unhoused, southern, or fetish-interested. The collection of chapters in Part two investigates the intersectionality of identities to understand better how these other factors or expressions change perceptions or experiences with police.

In Chapter 4, Osborn explores how being visibly transgender or nonbinary can make one more vulnerable to harassment, discrimination, or violence during police encounters. Osborn notes that many transgender and nonbinary people feel pressure to “perform” cisgender normativity and heteronormativity to avoid attracting negative attention from police and others. The data suggest that transgender people are less likely to call the police because they fear being mistreated by the police.

Along with being transgender and nonbinary, the organizational structure of policing can influence attitudes, as is the case for LGBTQ+ homeless youth. In Chapter 5, McCandless applies Bolman and Deal’s (2017) four-frame model of organizational dynamics to explain how structure, human resources, politics, and symbolism can affect LGBTQ+ homeless youth’s experiences and perceptions of police.

While the expansion of policy reforms aimed at reducing bias in police treatment of LGBTQ+ people is a positive recognition of the need for a new relationship between the police and members of the LGBTQ+ community, positive outcomes are not shared by everyone, particularly in...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809339560
• ISBN 13: 9780809339563
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Herausgeber: Colvin Roddrick, Dwyer Angela, Giwa Sulaimon
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