In 2016, without the knowledge of its citizens, Baltimore City Police deployed a military aerial surveillance technology called Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI), which can track the movements of every person in public view over the entire city. Though the trial of the “spy plane,” as the program was dubbed, quickly ended in scandal, organizers from Baltimore’s low‐income minority neighborhoods successfully rebooted the program in 2020, this time framing WAMI partly as a tool of “sousveillance” (watching “from below”) that can track the movements of police officers. The paper shows how organizers “rebranded” WAMI around two conceptions of sousveillance—“citizen‐centered” and “state‐centered”—creating an unlikely coalition of supporters from both pro‐ and anti‐policing sides of the criminal justice reform debate. But while the renewed program has vowed to be a “Big Brother” to the state, it will continue to be used for traditional surveillance, raising troubling questions about privacy. The article sheds light on the politics of watching and being watched in the era of technology‐driven criminal justice reform.

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“老大哥”：巴尔的摩（柜台）监视的视觉政治

2016年，巴尔的摩市警察在不了解其公民的情况下，部署了一种称为“广域动态影像”（WAMI）的军事空中监视技术，该技术可以在整个城市的公共视野中跟踪每个人的活动。尽管该计划被冠以“间谍飞机”的审判，但很快就因丑闻而告终，但巴尔的摩低收入少数民族社区的组织者于2020年成功重启了该计划，这次将WAMI的一部分归因于“监视”工具（观看“从下方”），可以跟踪警察的动向。本文显示了组织者如何围绕“以居民为中心”和“以国家为中心”这两种监视性概念“重塑” WAMI，从而在刑事司法改革辩论的赞成和反对警察方面建立了不太可能的支持者联盟。但是，尽管更新后的程序誓言将成为该州的“老大哥”，但它将继续用于传统监视，从而引发有关隐私的令人不安的问题。这篇文章阐明了在技术驱动的刑事司法改革时代观察和被观察的政治。