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4 Thoughts on ‘Brixton Unite’ and the Policing of Gentrification
Yesterday saw 'Brixton Unite' - a multi-agency police operation - take place in Brixton. While the claim by local government and the Metropolitan Police is that the operation was a response to 'gang crime', for many it is emblematic of the politics and management of gentrification: economic and social cleansing, racist policing, and the dispossession of urban space.