Policing, data, and power-geometry: intersections of crime analytics and race during urban restructuring

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Notes

1. Text were selected using the following search words: Compstat, crime analysis, crime data, crime mapping, and Crime Mapping and Analysis Application – each coupled with New York City, New York Police Department, or NYPD. These terms generated an abundance of documents on the NYPD’s GIS mapping. These documents offered hard-to-find insights into the objectives surrounding the development and use of crime data analytics in New York City.

2. Shuurman (2006) notes that all language shares this same limitation. It is therefore necessary to specify what is unique about such limitations in geography markup language.

3. It is important to note that the NYPD’s increasing emphasis to producing data have “lowered perceptions of pressure for integrity in crime statistics,” and led to “unethical distortion of crime reports” (Eterno & Silverman, 2010).