Abstract
Disasters, public health crises, and protests used to be exceptional events. In the past 12 months, they have become unexceptional, and the expanding remit of police during this time has impacted not only the capacity of the police to do their normal duties, but also damaged their relationships with some of the communities they serve. The considerable social, political, economic, and policing changes brought about by COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, and recent disasters require us to end our discussion of policing practices and vulnerability with a coda on the (un)exceptional. Exceptional social, political, and health circumstances, exceptional public outcry about police brutality, and exceptional environmental emergencies have all highlighted the unexceptional nature of vulnerability.
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Asquith, N.L., Bartkowiak-Théron, I. (2021). Coda on COVID-19: Reframing Vulnerability: Policing Pandemics, Protests, and Disasters. In: Policing Practices and Vulnerable People. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62870-3_13
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