Making crime visible in the digital age: the ethnomethods of data policing

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    The empirical analysis focuses on a case study where police officers explained in a public forum how they had used a suspect`s GPS locational data to establish that his presence and movements in the city were consistent with burglary activities. Ferguson proposes that as surveillance technologies evolve, inferences from personal data may sufficiently justify the seizure of a suspect, independent of in situ police work (e_g, patrolling, collecting witnesses` statements, etc.), marking a shift from "small" to "big" data policing. To make deductions from data, officers articulate professionally based knowledge analogous to social . . .

     

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