Curiously, in fact, it's almost exclusively women who are policed with the shouts of "it's worse elsewhere so think yourself lucky".
As someone who has been told she is too black to be British, and too British to be African, I am strongly against the notion that identity can be policed by some external standard.
And exactly how is this to be policed?
He accepted further negotiations would be needed between Greek finance experts and the troika of technocrats from the International Monetary Fund, the European commission and the European Central Bank which has policed the Greek bailout and dictated Athens fiscal policy for the past five years.
Black women's bodies have been and continue to be policed more than others, even within feminist spaces.
Michael Jefferson, a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, said the incident had had a profound influence in changing how disorder was policed.
He served in Lambeth until 1989 and policed the Brixton riots in 1981 and 1985.
Bankers accept they will be forced to build up bigger capital buffers, which will crimp profitability, and that the liquidity of their balance-sheets will be policed more intensively.
