The Police Management of Poor French Suburbs
Posted by Marcos Ancelovici on November 12, 2007
Rue89.com published an interesting piece on a book by David Dufresne, a former Libération journalist. Dufresne looked at the evolution of the police management of poor suburbs in France. He points out that in 2005, the CRS, who used to intervene in exceptional situations, began to patrol poor suburbs on a routine basis. Similarly, in 2006 military planes began to participate in a new surveillance strategy which relied on the use of the military to control a segment of the French civilian population. Here’s an interview with Dufresne that appears on the Rue89.com website:
