The Police Officers Are Portrayed As Racist Profilers

Approaching the ongoing situation in Paris, where police officers are portrayed as racist profilers, rather than people who are just simply trying to make the streets safe is not an easy task. Through his ethnographic work, Didier Fassin is able to portray an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region. Fasin attempts to prove that police work isn’t simply enforcing the law; rather the police are engaged in the task of enforcing an unequal social order in the name of public security. In general, it seems that Fassin wants to explain how minorities, and low-income communities in the banlieues experience police work after events such as riots, which create civil unrest. Fassin considers ethnography to be, â€Å"about entering and communicating the experience of men and women in a given context: their way of apprehending the world, of considering their place in society and their relations with others, of justifying their beliefs and actions. It is an attempt to†¦ explore another universe, often initially foreign but progressively becoming more familiar†(Fassin, XX). He sticks true to his believes in Enforcing Order, since he conducts his ethnographic research by having first person interactions with both those in the side of the law as well as those that are posed to be criminals. Fassin is able to provide quality accounts of how each of the sides in the story sees themselves, and how they view their relationships with others. By getting different points