Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto’s inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women believed officers treated them according to gendered stereotypes, and in response, women strategically deployed gendered presentations in an effort to resist, negotiate, and temper anticipated raid related harms. However, participants’ positionality constrained their efforts.

尽管对内城警务进行了大量研究，但对女性如何体验和理解非自愿警察遭遇的情况知之甚少。基于对多伦多市中心被警察突击搜查的女性的采访，本文探讨了这些被边缘化的女性在突击搜查期间与警察的互动中如何感知、导航和抵制规范的性别期望。我们的研究结果表明，女性认为警官根据性别刻板印象对待她们，作为回应，女性战略性地部署了性别表达，以努力抵制、协商和缓和预期的突袭相关伤害。然而，参与者的位置限制了他们的努力。