Andy Clarno and Sangeetha Ravichandran: “Counter/Surveillance: Big Data, Criminalization, and Abolition in Chicago”
ZoomIn an era of Big Data, police databases transform racialized discourses about crime, terror, and belonging into permanent records with real implications for individuals and communities. This project examines Big Data policing as a site for the production, circulation, and deployment of racialized state knowledge. Yet abolitionist movements in Chicago are refusing criminalized archetypes and…
