Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

In the digital age, we scatter millions of digital traces in our wake as we go about our everyday lives. How are these data used by law enforcement? In her book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, Sarah Brayne draws on ethnographic research with the Los Angeles Police Department to provide an on-the-ground account of how police use big data and associated surveillance technologies. She highlights the growing role of the private sector in public policing, investigates how the meanings and implications of data are contested, and analyzes the relationship between data-intensive surveillance, crime, and social inequality.

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