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The last Progress report on police called for a conceptual shift from police to policing; convergence towards a single theoretical framework; and more research in the subfield. I suggest that (1) the current multiplicity of sites and scales in police research better reflects policing’s complex spatialities, (2) there are benefits to expanding who and what counts as doing “police geography,” (3) calls for more police geographies have—in innovative, feminist, queer, BIPOC, abolitionist—or minor—ways been answered. Minor police geographies reject false dichotomies, illuminating complex relationality among public, private, and liminal space and police—and bring us closer to envisioning and enacting otherwise.
Emily (E.C.) Kaufman (Mon,) studied this question.