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posted on 2023-06-10, 01:10 authored by Dean WilsonDean Wilson
The infusion of information technologies within policing ecologies has accelerated since 2008. Frequently this is couched in the language of efficiency and of enabling police agencies to do more with less. While engaging various models including the notion of software as a service, the valence is towards cloud-based information architectures that infuse police organizations and which meld together disparate sources of data into modulated flows of maximal utility. While much is made in marketing materials to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, these new digital policing ecologies have genealogies in calculation, computerization and management science. This chapter examines the emergence of ‘platform policing’, arguing that it draws upon socio-technical imaginaries of efficient and cost-effective law enforcement that have their origins in the US context of the 1960s. Platform policing envisages police agencies that are lithe, flexible and perpetually reconfigured. Importantly, it also envisages policing as a key consumer and co-producer within ‘platform capitalism’, rendering police agencies key nodes in processes of capital accumulation.

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  • Published

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Publisher

Springer

Page range

47-68

Pages

248.0

Book title

Automating crime prevention, surveillance and military operations

Place of publication

Switzerland

ISBN

9783030732752

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First

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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Editors

Aleš Završnik, Vasja Badalic

Legacy Posted Date

2021-09-27

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2021-09-27

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