Much of the discussion about platforms and “platform capitalism” centers on commercial platform companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Shoshana Zuboff’s (2015) analysis of “surveillance capitalism” similarly focuses on Google as the trailblazer pushing the new logic of accumulation that is focused on data extraction and analysis of human activities. In his typology of platform companies, Nick Srnicek (2017) includes less visible industrial platforms that situate themselves as intermediaries between companies rather than between companies and consumer-users. In this article, the focus is a platform-building effort that looks something like an industrial platform but differs in the sense that the company in question, Axon Enterprise, aims to situate itself as an intermediary within and among law enforcement agencies (non-market entities) as a means of building a large-scale data-extractive system of monetization. Axon’s business strategy is emblematic of the ways that police evidence and record-keeping systems are being reimagined, and to some extent reconfigured, as sources of data extraction and analytics on the model of the platform. Whether Axon succeeds or is eclipsed by a competitor like Palantir or even Amazon or Microsoft, the process of reimagining and reorganizing policing as a platform is underway—a process that, to paraphrase Zuboff, deeply imbricates public and private surveillance activities, dissolving the boundary between public and private authority in the surveillance project.

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作为数字平台的警务

关于平台和“平台资本主义”的讨论主要集中在商业平台公司，例如Google，Facebook，Amazon和Apple。Shoshana Zuboff（2015）对“监视资本主义”的分析同样侧重于Google，将其作为推动积累的新逻辑的开拓者，该逻辑着重于数据提取和人类活动的分析。在他对平台公司的分类中，尼克·斯尼科克（Nick Srnicek，2017）包括了不那么明显的工业平台，这些平台将自己定位为公司之间而不是公司与消费者用户之间的中介。在本文中，重点是建立平台的工作，该工作看起来像一个工业平台，但在意义上不同，该公司，Axon Enterprise，旨在将自己定位为执法机构（非市场实体）内部和之中的中介，以构建大规模的数据提取货币化系统。Axon的业务战略象征着重新构想警察证据和记录保存系统，并在某种程度上重新配置了其作为平台模型上数据提取和分析来源的方式。无论Axon是成功还是被Palantir甚至甚至是亚马逊或Microsoft之类的竞争对手所击败，都在重新构想和重组作为平台的警务的过程正在进行中-用Zuboff的话来说，这深深地根植了公共和私人监视活动，消除了两者之间的界限。监视项目中的公共和私人机构。Axon的业务战略象征着重新设计警察证据和记录保存系统，并在某种程度上重新配置了其作为平台模型上数据提取和分析来源的方式。无论Axon是成功还是被Palantir甚至甚至是亚马逊或Microsoft之类的竞争对手所击败，都在重新构想和重组作为平台的警务的过程正在进行中-用Zuboff的话来说，这深深地根植了公共和私人监视活动，消除了两者之间的界限。监视项目中的公共和私人机构。Axon的业务战略象征着重新设计警察证据和记录保存系统，并在某种程度上重新配置了其作为平台模型上数据提取和分析来源的方式。无论Axon是成功还是被Palantir甚至甚至是亚马逊或Microsoft之类的竞争对手所击败，都在重新构想和重组作为平台的警务的过程正在进行中-用Zuboff的话来说，这深深地根植了公共和私人监视活动，消除了两者之间的界限。监视项目中的公共和私人机构。