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„By 1976, the date our story ended, robbery statistics (most of which were regarded as muggings) and youth unemployment were rising in tandem, black youth and mugging had become synonymous, the police were aggressively swamping ‘black’ areas using local stop and search powers and the old ‘sus’ laws largely against young black males, and an emboldened National Front had marched specifically against black muggings. The advent of Thatcher and Thatcherism worsened matters considerably during the eighties. Her authoritarian, cost-cutting, neo-liberal agenda was to produce fierce industrial disputes, wholesale deindustrialisation, growing inequality, mass (especially youth) unemployment, growing anti-immigrant feeling, and regular inner city riots: in Bristol, Brixton, Toxteth, Tottenham, Handsworth and elsewhere. Scarman’s conclusion that the Brixton riots were ‘essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police’1 was broadly true of all of them. In Brixton 1981 it was a mass stop/search operation over 10 days that was the immediate trigger. In Tottenham 1985 it was the rough handling of a black woman in a drug raid, precipitating a fatal heart attack. The Metropolitan Police’s response to Scarman was to release figures showing black people were largely responsible for muggings in London and to introduce the idea of targeting ‘symbolic locations’ – places where unemployed (often black) youth congregate (read: ‘black areas’).“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 390) #polizeikontrollen;„By 1976, the date our story ended, robbery statistics (most of which were regarded as muggings) and youth unemployment were rising in tandem, black youth and mugging had become synonymous, the police were aggressively swamping ‘black’ areas using local stop and search powers and the old ‘sus’ laws largely against young black males, and an emboldened National Front had marched specifically against black muggings. The advent of Thatcher and Thatcherism worsened matters considerably during the eighties. Her authoritarian, cost-cutting, neo-liberal agenda was to produce fierce industrial disputes, wholesale deindustrialisation, growing inequality, mass (especially youth) unemployment, growing anti-immigrant feeling, and regular inner city riots: in Bristol, Brixton, Toxteth, Tottenham, Handsworth and elsewhere. Scarman’s conclusion that the Brixton riots were ‘essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police’1 was broadly true of all of them. In Brixton 1981 it was a mass stop/search operation over 10 days that was the immediate trigger. In Tottenham 1985 it was the rough handling of a black woman in a drug raid, precipitating a fatal heart attack. The Metropolitan Police’s response to Scarman was to release figures showing black people were largely responsible for muggings in London and to introduce the idea of targeting ‘symbolic locations’ – places where unemployed (often black) youth congregate (read: ‘black areas’).“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 390) #polizeikontrollen