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How language skills become cultural burden in policing

I'm the only officer who speaks Mandarin but every time there's an incident in Chinatown they assume I'll automatically understand the cultural context.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The reduction of complex identity to utilitarian function within institutional systems.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Policing across cultures?”

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