2023-07-18 05:00:11
A seven-page note excluding appendices and cover, entitled “Police and racism”, has been sleeping for two years in the drawers of the interministerial delegation for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred (Dilcrah). This short report written on the initiative of the scientific council of the body responsible for the fight against discrimination, which depends on Matignon, was never published when it should have been. However, his conclusions after seventeen hearings of police officers, magistrates or academics by seven researchers have nothing of the pamphlet. Their measured tone, precise and nuanced recommendations could even have helped to inspire the educational programs of police academies, where teaching in the social sciences and multidisciplinary approaches are still largely wishful thinking – when they are only envisaged.
But since its submission to the Dilcrah in July 2021, its editors have not received the slightest news of their work, which had not been brought to the attention of the public before its release. daily revelation Humanity July 13 and posting the document on its website.
“This memospecifies the organization, was sent to the ministries concerned” et “of course fed into the reflections within the framework of the development of the National Plan to Combat Racism, Anti-Semitism and Discrimination Related to Origin [PRA-DO] » unveiled by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on January 30. But it has not yet been made public.
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However, it immediately and unambiguously dismisses the existence of structural xenophobia in the police. “The hearings showed, write its editors, that it cannot be said that the French police institution is deliberately based in its organization, its hierarchical structure, its recruitments, its ethics, its internal regulations and its dominant ideology, on a “systemic racism”. » They have also widened their field of reflection to related but decisive questions of training, professional skills or the ” shortage “ without forgetting to consider, since that was the purpose of their work, the “manifestations of racism among some police officers” and the resulting difficulties of intervention “with certain populations”.
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“We brought together an interdisciplinary working group made up of personalities from very different backgrounds, history, anthropology, educational sciences, philosophyunderlines Smaïn Laacher, sociologist and former president of the scientific council of the Dilcrah. It was a condition for producing intelligibility while going as close as possible to practices, asking the police what they do, how and when they should do it. »
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