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Governing, Policing and Racialisation through POL-INTEL: An analysis of data-driven policing in Denmark

Dahler-Eriksen, Line Sofie LU (2021) GNVM03 20202
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
In this thesis, I critically scrutinize the data-driven policing tool POL-INTEL, which was implemented in the Danish police in 2017. To better understand how we are governed and policed through POL-INTEL I look at the problematisations and forms of subjectifications constituted in the policies to acquire and implement the system in the police and through the technology of POL-INTEL itself. For this purpose, I subject a range of documents and an interview, that all relate to the acquisition, implementation and functions of POL-INTEL to a discourse-analysis inspired by Bacchi’s WPR-approach. Theoretically, I draw on race-critical, post-colonialist, feminist and foucauldian perspectives on technology and data-driven policing. My analysis... (More)
In this thesis, I critically scrutinize the data-driven policing tool POL-INTEL, which was implemented in the Danish police in 2017. To better understand how we are governed and policed through POL-INTEL I look at the problematisations and forms of subjectifications constituted in the policies to acquire and implement the system in the police and through the technology of POL-INTEL itself. For this purpose, I subject a range of documents and an interview, that all relate to the acquisition, implementation and functions of POL-INTEL to a discourse-analysis inspired by Bacchi’s WPR-approach. Theoretically, I draw on race-critical, post-colonialist, feminist and foucauldian perspectives on technology and data-driven policing. My analysis shows how POL-INTEL was initially presented primarily as a solution to terrorism, while it later in the implementation process was presented primarily as a solution to crime. Based on this, I argue that POL-INTEL represents a militarization of the logics and technologies in the Danish police. I further find that the policies and technology present the problems of terrorism and crime as problems of the racialized other, and as increasingly complex yet increasingly predictable problems. This, I argue, draw on and make possible pre-emptive logics of policing where the prediction of future threats work to produce and justify police action in the present. (Less)
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author
Dahler-Eriksen, Line Sofie LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVM03 20202
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Data-driven policing, predictive policing, racialization, militarization, problematisations
language
English
id
9053511
date added to LUP
2021-09-23 11:30:33
date last changed
2021-09-23 11:30:33
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  abstract     = {{In this thesis, I critically scrutinize the data-driven policing tool POL-INTEL, which was implemented in the Danish police in 2017. To better understand how we are governed and policed through POL-INTEL I look at the problematisations and forms of subjectifications constituted in the policies to acquire and implement the system in the police and through the technology of POL-INTEL itself. For this purpose, I subject a range of documents and an interview, that all relate to the acquisition, implementation and functions of POL-INTEL to a discourse-analysis inspired by Bacchi’s WPR-approach. Theoretically, I draw on race-critical, post-colonialist, feminist and foucauldian perspectives on technology and data-driven policing. My analysis shows how POL-INTEL was initially presented primarily as a solution to terrorism, while it later in the implementation process was presented primarily as a solution to crime. Based on this, I argue that POL-INTEL represents a militarization of the logics and technologies in the Danish police. I further find that the policies and technology present the problems of terrorism and crime as problems of the racialized other, and as increasingly complex yet increasingly predictable problems. This, I argue, draw on and make possible pre-emptive logics of policing where the prediction of future threats work to produce and justify police action in the present.}},
  author       = {{Dahler-Eriksen, Line Sofie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Governing, Policing and Racialisation through POL-INTEL: An analysis of data-driven policing in Denmark}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}