2018
DOI: 10.5334/kula.34
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The Paradox of Police Data

Abstract: This paper considers the history and politics of 'police data.' Police data, I contend, is a category of endangered data reliant on voluntary and inconsistent reporting by law enforcement agencies; it is also inconsistently described and routinely housed in systems that were not designed with long-term strategies for data preservation, curation or management in mind. Moreover, whereas US law enforcement agencies have, for over a century, produced and published a great deal of data about crime, data about the w… Show more

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“…The resulting (meta)data would still demand data sharing and provenance tracking, but in a much more restricted fashion (see e.g. [7] for discussion of the data-centric world of law enforcement agencies and resulting issues with data sharing).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The resulting (meta)data would still demand data sharing and provenance tracking, but in a much more restricted fashion (see e.g. [7] for discussion of the data-centric world of law enforcement agencies and resulting issues with data sharing).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%