Dye In The Cracks: The Limits Of Legal Frameworks Governing Police Use Of Big Data

Dye In The Cracks: The Limits Of Legal Frameworks Governing Police Use Of Big Data

Sarah Brayne| Saint Louis University School Of Law

Computational procedures increasingly inform how we work, communicate, and make decisions, raising sociolegal questions about how data are used by police and what the consequences are for laws governing police activity. Legal scholars have begun analysing the implication of big data policing. The author looks at the case study of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to ground legal debates about police use of big data in empirical detail. The author outlines four ways legal frameworks are overlooking the social side of big data.

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Brayne, S. (2021) Die in the Cracks: The limits of legal frameworks governing Police Use of Big Data, Saint Louis University School of Law Journal. https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2266&context=lj