Jefferson, Brian Jordan

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“Data-driven policing thereby facilitates racialized criminalization through a feedback loop of arrests, tickets, data-entry, data-analysis, and patrol deployments… Differential production of crime data…reinforces… disproportionate patrolling of racialized minorities."

Geographic information systems [GIS] focus on “microspatial ‘hotspots’ of crime” & “Contrary to official rhetoric about the objectivity and precision of GIS, there is no evidence that they have had meaningful implications for the racialized character of policing."

“The Chicago case illustrates that predictive crime mapping does not incur more precise applications of police force but rather legitimizes the widespread criminalization of racialized districts."