'It is not enough for a queer liberation movement to simply support racial equality; it must also account for the ways queer people of color live at the intersections of these hatreds.'
. Potter argues that as cities grew in the 19th century, centralized police forces that were precursors to our modern systems arose to respond not to crime but to “disorder,” creating a system of social control based around race and class, providing “the illusion that this order was being maintained under the rule of law, not at the whim of those with economic power.”
“Defining social control as crime control was accomplished by raising the specter of the ‘dangerous classes,’’ Potter wrote. “The suggestion was that public drunkenness, crime, hooliganism, political protests, and worker ‘riots’ were the products of a biologically inferior, morally intemperate, unskilled and uneducated underclass.”“This underclass was easily identifiable because it consisted primarily of the poor, foreign immigrants, and free blacks,” Potter continued.
Boston’s police department isn’t exempt from this history. Earlier this year, Boston Police Commissioner William G. Gross — the city’s first African-American head of police —
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