Protecting the full humanity and multiple rights of community members during policing, recognizing that people hold multiple identities and rights simultaneously, grounded in Sor Juana's integrated analysis of justice and identity.
Sor Juana defended multiple rights simultaneously—intellectual freedom, women's dignity, cultural respect—refusing to compartmentalize identity or rights. In policing, intersectionality means recognizing that a transgender immigrant woman experiencing domestic violence holds rights as a woman, an immigrant, a person at risk, and a person of dignity; policing must protect all these dimensions rather than choosing between them. Too often, enforcement of one right (e.g., addressing crime) overrides others (e.g., privacy, dignity, cultural respect). Intersectional policing means: training officers to recognize multiple identities and interconnected vulnerabilities, ensuring that enforcement doesn't abandon people to other harms, protecting whistleblowers and abuse victims regardless of immigration status, and preventing police from weaponizing identity against community members. It requires policies that explicitly refuse to cooperate with unjust enforcement of laws targeting particular groups. When police protect the full intersectional humanity of community members, enforcement becomes more ethical and more effective, building trust across diverse populations.
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