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The new platform policing
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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SpringerExternal DOI
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47-68Pages
248.0Book title
Automating crime prevention, surveillance and military operationsPlace of publication
SwitzerlandISBN
9783030732752Edition
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- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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Aleš Završnik, Vasja BadalicLegacy Posted Date
2021-09-27First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-09-27Usage metrics
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