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The laughing policebot: automation and the end of policing
Policing and Society ( IF 2.705 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-25 , DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1810249
M.R. McGuire 1
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ABSTRACT

Though there has always been a close relationship between professional policing and technology, the sheer scale of operational dependence upon new technologies has begun to raise a number of concerns. In this paper I trace 3 kinds of contrasting dynamics in the perception of the policing/technology relationship. A first view has tended to see this relationship in largely unproblematic, positive terms, one which generally results in ‘more efficient’, cost-effective forms of policing. Against this, a more sceptical position can also be traced. On this view, whilst enhanced access to technology often benefits police performance, it has often also come with enhanced opportunities for misuse which threaten dystopian scenarios of coercion, denial of rights and – at worst – the spectre of technologised police states. I argue that a third view is now plausible, one that has been far less discussed, even though it may present the greatest challenge to the viability of policing as we have known it. For the emergent technologies now reshaping policing often involve automated tools like predictive algorithms or facial recognition systems. This raises the question of what limits to the automation of policing there may be and whether automation will ultimately entail the ‘end’ of professional police forces as once envisioned by Peel.



中文翻译:

笑嘻嘻的警察机器人:自动化与警务的终结

摘要

尽管专业警务与技术之间一直存在着密切的关系,但是操作上对新技术的依赖的规模已经开始引起许多关注。在本文中,我追踪了对策略/技术关系的三种对比动态。第一种观点倾向于以一种基本没有问题的积极态度看待这种关系,这种关系通常会导致“更有效”,更具成本效益的警务形式。与此相对,也可以追溯到更加怀疑的立场。按照这种观点,虽然增加获取技术的机会通常可以使警察的工作表现受益,但它常常还带来了更多的滥用机会,这可能会威胁到反乌托邦的胁迫,剥夺权利的情况,并且在最坏的情况下还会威胁到技术警察国家的幽灵。我认为,第三种观点现在看来是合理的,尽管我们所知道的第三种观点可能对维持治安的能力提出最大挑战,但第三种观点尚待讨论。对于如今出现的新兴技术而言,重塑策略通常涉及诸如预测算法或面部识别系统之类的自动化工具。这就提出了一个问题,即警务自动化可能受到什么限制,以及自动化是否最终会像皮尔所设想的那样最终导致专业警察队伍的“终结”。

更新日期:2020-09-25
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