Cannabis, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Stigma: Conflicting Narratives on the 26 May 2016 Toronto Police Raid on Cannabis Shops by Thaddeus Müller

“…On May 26, 2016, the police raided 43 cannabis dispensaries in Toronto, Canada, making 90 arrests. …”
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The Expansion of Milícias in Rio de Janeiro. Political and Economic Advantages by Daniel Veloso Hirata, Adauto Cardoso, Carolina Christoph Grillo, Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior, Diogo Azevedo Lyra, Renato Coelho Dirk

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How to Stage a Raid: Police, media and the master narrative of trafficking by Annie Hill

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Of Lady-killers and ‘Men Dressed As Women’: Soap Opera, Scapegoats and the Mexico City Police Department by Vek Lewis

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The Creeping Blight of Islamophobia in Australia by Linda Briskman

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The Fatal Allure of Extremist Logic: Syaifudin Zuhri and the July 17 Suicide Bombers by Sulastri Osman

“…Syaifudin Zuhri Djaelani was killed on October 9 during a police raid near Jakarta. Emerging details of how he recruited suicide bombers suggest that perhaps it is less the disaffected but more the intellectually curious who may be fodder for terrorist groups.…”
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Creative and „Editing" Activities of Jaromír Šavrda and „Criticism" in Judgements and Criminal File by Iva Málková

“…It focuses on non-literary pseudo-assessments of the books and samizdat volumes, which were confiscated during a police raid in Šavrda´s place and used to bring charges against him. …”
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Gênes pour mémoire by Alice Leroy, Carlo Augusto Bachschmidt

“…In order to initiate a debate on the judicial and memorial stakes involved in using this archive, he brought with him two of his films: OP Genova (2007), made during the proceedings and based on archived audiovisual material, and Black Block (2011), made with some of the victims of the police raid on the Diaz school during the night of 21 July 2001. …”
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Global South Perspectives on Stonewall after 50 Years, Part II—Brazilian Stonewalls: Radical Politics and Lesbian Activism by Flávia Belmont, Amanda Álvares Ferreira

“…Abstract The riots against a New York City police raid at the Stonewall Inn bar in June, 1969, are often identified as having sparked the movement for LGBT rights, and the commemoration of the riots one year later in June, 1970, inaugurated a series of annual LGBT Pride events that continues to this day worldwide. …”
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Global South Perspectives on Stonewall after 50 Years, Part I—South by South, Trans for Trans by Mariah Rafaela Silva, Jaya Jacobo

“…Abstract The riots against a New York City police raid at the Stonewall Inn bar in June, 1969, are often identified as having sparked the movement for LGBT rights, and the commemoration of the riots one year later in June, 1970, inaugurated a series of annual LGBT Pride events that continues to this day worldwide. …”
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On the Death of Mame Mbaye: Racialism as the Ultimate Goal in the “Battle against Irregular Immigration” by Barak Kalir

“…<p class="first" id="d3338333e75">On 15 March 2018, Mame Mbaye, a 35-year-old migrant from Senegal who lived in Spain for 11 years, died on a street in the centre of Madrid. A police raid on unauthorized street vendors caused panic among illegalized migrants, who ran away trying to avoid an arrest that could have led to their detention and deportation. …”
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An overview of forensic operations performed following the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015, in Paris by Antoine Tracqui, Céline Deguette, Tania Delabarde, Yann Delannoy, Isabelle Plu, Isabelle Sec, Lilia Hamza, Marc Taccoen, Bertrand Ludes

“…Of the 10 terrorists or their relatives who were killed, eight died from suicide bombing, one was shot by police and one died from crush injuries due to partial collapse of a building following the police raid against a terrorist’s hideout after the attacks. …”
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Funerals of suspected terrorists in Indonesia : a rallying point? by Sulastri Osman

“…The presence of different radical Muslim groups at the funerals of suspected terrorists killed in police raids demonstrate how such events could become a rallying point. …”
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After the #Keyword: Eliciting, Sustaining, and Coordinating Participation Across the Occupy Movement by Joan Donovan

“…Through ethnography, I show how internal and external pressures—the high density of connections through social media, a desire to coordinate across locations, and police raids on encampments—led to the development of a virtual organization, called InterOccupy. …”
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Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920­–1930 by Adam R. Rathge

“…Within weeks of New Orleans's first ordinance prohibiting marijuana in 1923, police raids rounded up alleged users and peddlers on the streets, in houses, restaurants, and soft drink stands. …”
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The Silver Spring monkey controversy: changing cultures of care in twentieth-century laboratory animal research by Kirk Robert G. W.

“…In September 1981 police raided the Institute for Behavioral Research (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) seizing a number of macaque monkeys in response to accusations of animal cruelty against the neuroscientist Edward Taub. …”
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Uncommon Rhythms: Rupture and Retreat in Inner-City Johannesburg by Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

“…This paper argues that the rhythms of life in precarious urban areas of inner-city Johannesburg are characterised by a series of chronic shocks involving fire, police raids, immigration raids and evictions. Against the backdrop of such shocks, inner-city residents, particularly the residents of unlawful occupations, attempt to form bonds of care and support among themselves. …”
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‘Māori terror threat’: The dangers of the post-9/11 narrative by Alison McCulloch

“…In this commentary, I use American reporting on terrorism after September 11 to pick a path through the emerging story of the 15 October 2007 police raids in New Zealand. I argue that not only does the American experience offer important insights into some of the risks associated with reporting on terrorism, it helps explain the narratives at work in New Zealand media coverage. …”
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Collective dynamics of dark web marketplaces by ElBahrawy, A, Alessandretti, L, Rusnac, L, Goldsmith, D, Teytelboym, A, Baronchelli, A

“…Since dark web marketplaces are unregulated, they do not offer any user protection, so police raids and scams regularly cause large losses to marketplace participants. …”

On the Sensory Policing of Vices by Julia Leser

“…Morality not simply is but is being done—and performing affects and sensations plays a significant role in the making of moral worlds in the realm of policing. Raiding the red-light ‘milieu’ is a performance on disorder and order, on what is normal and what is not, and thus a deeply political practice that reveals how order- and boundary-making operates through basic sensations and feelings, of the sensuous, the aesthetic, and the somatic.…”
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