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- Title
Platform Policing and the Real-Time Cop.
- Authors
Wilson, Dean
- Abstract
Policing, particularly in the United States, is being progressively datafied. This process has a historical trajectory that is crucial to the analysis and critique of new platform-based security architectures. Predictive policing has already attracted considerable attention, partially due to its seemingly novel fusion of predictive analytics and police work. Hyperbolic early claims--often mobilizing science fiction imagery--that the future could, in fact, be predicted, pointed towards utopic/dystopic imaginaries of seamlessly integrated control. Predictive policing is, however, increasingly only one component of cloud-based data systems that are coursing through police activity. The imaginary of these transformations can be analysed through the security imaginary of policing as a process of real-time data transmission, perpetually self-adjusting and self-augmenting through machine calculation. The historical contextualization of this imaginary suggests useful vectors of inquiry that position platform policing squarely within the mechanisms of contemporary capitalism.
- Subjects
COMPUTING platforms; COMPUTERS in law enforcement; REAL-time computing; ELECTRONIC surveillance; PREDICTIVE policing; CLOUD computing
- Publication
Surveillance & Society, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 1/2, p69
- ISSN
1477-7487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12958