Racialized policing

In 2022, I had the opportunity to join the Racialized Policing Project, led by Dr Frank Pezzella, which contributed to a report for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) as part of the NYC Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative. I conducted a comprehensive scoping review of racialized policing practices in the United States. The review aimed to describe how the academic literature frames and delineates the concept of racialized policing, what common conceptual themes emerge from the research, and what solutions it offers. I systematically searched four databases using keyword sets related to racialized policing, yielding 1,022 documents. In collaboration with Dr Valli Rajah, I developed a concept model to clarify the conditions underpinning racialized policing and the key factors shaping academic discourse on the issue.