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Y1  - 2025/02/25/
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TI  - The constructions of anti-Black anxiety: Operation Trident's ?as if? fictionalisms
A1  - Nwonka, Clive Chijioke
KW  - Race
KW  -  visual culture
KW  -  crime
KW  -  blackness
KW  -  police
KW  -  media
JF  - Ethnic and Racial Studies
PB  - Informa UK Limited
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2462706
SN  - 0141-9870
N2  - The Metropolitan Police?s Operation Trident (1998?2012) was a key
example of how Black criminalization was accentuated through the
inferential narratives of the media. However, Operation Trident?s
independent use of the media would see them exhibit a varied
practice of community policing as part of its broader preventative
measures that would use a variety of visual mediums in its crossmedia campaign strategy specifically aimed at London?s Black
urban communities as an intervention into what was perceived as
the natural allure of gun violence within the city?s Black symbolic
locations. This article considers the modes through which
Operation Trident attempted to structure public opinion. In
conducting an underexamined analysis of Operation Trident, I
apply the Neo-Kantianism of Vailhinger?s ?as if? philosophy to
consider the means through which the Metropolitan Police?s antiBlack gun crime initiative instituted anxiety as a Black
criminological visual culture, and in doing so, secured its legitimacy.
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