Rather than thinking only in terms of flat cartographic surfaces, this article advances current understandings of the political geography of police power by paying close attention to both height and depth in the fabrication and colonization of three-dimensional or volumetric political space. Taking aim at a number of police technologies including the ShotSpotter system which uses highly sensitive microphones to track gunfire and tear gas which weaponizes the atmosphere, our aim is to bring the volumetric to bear in the critique of the police power. After having sketched the volumetric and its implications for contemporary police practices, we conclude the article with some reflections on how recent interventions in speculative realism and new materialism might allow us to see all human and non-human objects as part of policing’s broader volumetric assemblage, thereby revealing the contours of a three-dimensional policeman.

通过在三维或体积的政治空间的制造和殖民化过程中密切关注高度和深度，这篇文章不仅可以仅在平坦的制图平面上进行思考，而且可以增进对警察权力政治地理学的当前理解。我们瞄准了许多警察技术，包括ShotSpotter系统，该系统使用高度灵敏的麦克风来跟踪枪声和催泪瓦斯，这些武器和武器为大气提供了武器，我们的目标是使容积成为对警察权力的批判。在勾勒出体积及其对当代警察做法的影响之后，