Serv/eillance: Cops, Queers, and Clinics in Segregated Chicago.

This article examines the Chicago Police Department's community policing program, known as the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS), and its partnerships with LGBTQ+ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Chicago's predominantly white, middle-class gayborhood. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research and interviews, the study reveals that these partnerships incorporate NGOs into racialized policing strategies through formal agreements and implicit expectations, conditioning service provision to queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) on surveillance and compliance. The author introduces the concept of "serv/eillance" to describe this multi-tiered system wherein NGOs act as proxies for police surveillance, managing and often invisibilizing QTPOC clients to reduce complaints from white residents, thereby sustaining racialized social control under the guise of community inclusion and sexual freedom. The findings highlight tensions between stated goals of safety and inclusion and the continued targeting and marginalization of LGBTQ+POC within these institutional collaborations.