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Policing By Numbers: Big Data And The Fourth Amendment, Elizabeth E. Joh
Policing By Numbers: Big Data And The Fourth Amendment, Elizabeth E. Joh
Washington Law Review
This article identifies three uses of big data that hint at the future of policing and the questions these tools raise about conventional Fourth Amendment analysis. Two of these examples, predictive policing and mass surveillance systems, have already been adopted by a small number of police departments around the country. A third example—the potential use of DNA databank samples—presents an untapped source of big data analysis. Whether any of these three examples of big data policing attract more widespread adoption by the police is yet unknown, but it likely that the prospect of being able to analyze large amounts of …