Overpolicing

“Overpolicing” is a work of collaborative visual research produced and edited by Dr. Laura Loyola-Hernández, Toni Lee, and Dr. Laura Connelly; comic by Petroglyph Comics, art by Nicole Marie Burton and script by Hugh Goldring. The comic follows Tomas, Violet and Kit as they navigate heavy police presence during a protest and a community meeting on safety. The comic is based on a project working with racially diverse communities in Leeds to explore how new policing powers are experienced and responded to. Through three creative workshops, participants produced ‘body maps’ and ‘collective maps’ to show the lived, felt, and spatial impacts of policing. Fifteen follow-up interviews deepened personal reflections.