ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the dominant perception that counter-terrorism policing produces 'suspect communities'. It argues that, rather than promoting assimilation or other forms of ethnic homogenization, counter-radicalization policies produce and reinforce a division of society into discrete ethno-religious groups. While the concept of suspect communities presents a static understanding of the effect of counter-radicalization policies, the notion of policed multiculturalism offers a relational and dynamic approach to counter-radicalization policies as a specific way of governing. The chapter discusses on the most salient techniques of hard policing in terms of counter-terrorism, and their effects. In the field of counter-terrorism, the government 'through community' has mostly developed through the concept of community policing. However, community-policing-based counter-terrorism impinges much more pervasively on the way in which multiculturalism functions as institutionalized government of diversity. The relationship between multiculturalism and counter-terrorism is more complex than politicians would have us believe.
