Abstract
Abstract This chapter frames a thick conception of Black security as a corrective in political and legal debates over policing. As demonstrated here through qualitative interview data, Black Americans who live in dispossessed urban neighborhoods have rich and complex beliefs, experiences, and hopes with respect to policing and security. Yet those perspectives are often flattened and misconstrued by policymakers, journalists, activists, and other stakeholders in public safety debates. To combat this tendency, this chapter suggests engaging in a more careful reading of public opinion data on policing, an expansion of metrics used in studies on policing, and a more parsimonious understanding of the appropriate roles for social science in moral and political debates over safety.
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