ABSTRACT From the 1960s onwards, police scholars have accurately documented what patrol officers do when carrying out their job. Their work has been supplemented by miscellaneous publications on police culture, police working styles, and factors influencing police decision-making. Although scholars do recognise the significance of professional freedom, what takes place within this discretionary space to manoeuvre has never been fully studied, especially within the context of predictive policing. We aim to open up the ‘black box’ of police discretion by offering an empirical study on the everyday patrol work of a predictive policing flex-team (a kind of data-driven flying squad) in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. Building on previous literature and on our own insights, we advance a theoretical model of police craftsmanship with particular interest in patrol officer-civilian encounters. This model consists of five, partly overlapping, routine actions: searching for relevant clues, defining a situation, anticipating a situation, dealing with civilians and closing a situation. A deeper insight into such routines will enable patrol officers to reflect on what ‘good policing’ entails and how to further professionalise their occupation against the complex backdrop of micro-grid crime prevention technology.

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数据驱动的飞行小队的日常巡逻工作：在与平民互动中推进关于警察手工艺的理论思考

摘要从1960年代开始，警察学者已经准确地记录了巡逻人员执行工作的方式。他们的工作得到了有关警察文化，警察工作作风以及影响警察决策的因素的各种出版物的补充。尽管学者们确实认识到职业自由的重要性，但是在这种自由裁量空间内进行的活动从未得到过充分研究，特别是在预测性警务的背景下。我们的目标是通过对荷兰首都阿姆斯特丹的一个预测性警察机动部队（一种由数据驱动的飞行小队）的日常巡逻工作进行实证研究，以打开警察自由裁量权的“黑匣子”。基于先前的文献和我们自己的见解，我们提出了一种警察手工艺的理论模型，特别是对巡逻人员与平民的接触产生了兴趣。该模型由五个部分重叠的例行行动组成：寻找相关线索，定义情况，预见情况，与平民打交道和结束情况。对此类例行程序的更深入了解将使巡逻人员能够思考“良好的警务”的含义，以及如何在微电网犯罪预防技术的复杂背景下进一步使其职业专业化。