How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing

By R. Joshua ScannellAugust 24, 2026

Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first century are not wholly human practices. The strategies, tactics, and encounters that organize the carceral state are developed and prosecuted in collaboration with inhuman technologies that “we” do not and cannot fully understand. In

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