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Created Image: Policing in the Classroom

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Allen, Terry, Bryan, Isaac, Guerero, Andrew, Teng, Alvin, and Lytle-Hernandez, Kelly (2018). “Policing Our Students: An Analysis of L.A. School Police Department Data (2014 - 2017).” Los Angeles, CA. The Million Dollar Hoods Project

 

Los Angeles School Police Department. 2018. “Los Angeles School Police Department’s Facebook Page.”Facebook, November 24, 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/LASchoolPolice/photos/?ref=page_internal

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Critical Commentary

This juxtaposition of images was created as it shows:

  • the incongruity of LASPD policing and rhetoric

  • the disciplinary/policing hegemony in the schooling of minority children

By juxtaposing these images, I hope to show the ideological infrastructure supporting state violence under the rhetoric of safety and engagement through the deceptively benign form of chosen self-representation. 

This juxtaposition brings forth questions of what bodies are policed and how. This is especially in terms of the representations of what police encounters with marginalized groups actually entails.

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