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Niklas Creemers
[1]
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niklas.creemers@metropolitanstudies.de
[2]
Center for Metropolitan Studies
TU Berlin
Hardenbergstraße 16-18
HBS-6
10623 Berlin
Dissertation
The Policing Assemblage. On the
Co-Evolution of Technology, Knowledge, and Policing in New York
City.
Police work is information work. Core
activities of policing include collecting, storing, exchanging, and
processing information about the population, its elements, and the
relations that exist between them in order to manage contingencies and
secure social order. The utilization of new information sources along
with the use of databases, and growingly complex methods of data
analysis have fostered new ways of generating knowledge and exercising
social control.
These observations are the point of
departure for my doctoral project on the co-evolution of technology,
knowledge, and social control as it is exerted by police. I
investigate the implementation of information technologies by the
NYPD, starting with the New York police reform in 1994. This reform
was based on the integration of state-of-the-art computer technology
to gather and analyze information about crime and its distribution in
time and space. Beyond that, the reform introduced new concepts of
understanding crime and new management methods. Since then the NYPD
has constantly adapted technological innovations and refined its
strategies and practices along with them.
Following basic
assumptions of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the
Sociology of Technology, I consider technologies not just as a tool
for social activities. Rather I understand them as active agents
within sociotechnical constellations.
Against this
backdrop, I conceptualize policing as a field of practices in which
activities are conducted in networks of distributed agency which
comprise human and non-human actors. With the latter can include
discourses and narratives, strategies and tactics, organizational
structures and traditions, technologies and artefacts.
My
dissertation project places special emphasis on digital technologies
as key elements of urban policing. I will examine how the use of
databases, data analysis tools and crime maps constitutes policing as
a growing data assemblage, which integrates increasing numbers of
sources and types of information about the city and its population to
foster knowledge about the emergence of crime and its spatio-temporal
distribution. I will analyze in which ways the distribution of
activities between human actors and digital technologies has changed,
consequently transforming the production of knowledge. Furthermore, I
explored how these sociotechnical practices of knowledge production
shape the ways police act within the city as they govern, arrange and
assemble elements within urban space and time in order to fight and
prevent crime. By that, I aim at examining how policing partakes in
the constitution of urban spatio-temporal regimes as they foster or
impede particular activities by certain groups within urban space and
time.
Perspectives from Actor-Network-Theory (ANT),
assemblage thinking, governmentality studies and apparatus analysis
form the theoretical foundation of my doctoral project.
Methodologically my research includes discourse analytical approaches
as well as qualitative expert interviews and participatory
observations.
CV
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Urban Studies, Surveillance Studies,
Science and Technology Studies, Gouvernementality Studies, Big Data
CURRICULUM VITAE
since
05/2015
PhD candidate at the DFG-funded International Graduate
Program Berlin - New York – Toronto: “The World in the City
Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the
Present” at Technical University Berlin, Center for Metropolitan
Studies (CMS)
2002 – 2009
Dipl. Soz.-Wiss.,
University Duisburg-Essen
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2010 – 2014
Researcher at
Technical University Berlin, Center for Technology and Society
(CTS)
PUBLICATIONS
“Datenbanken in der Polizeipraxis: zur computergestützten
Konstruktion von Verdacht” (with Daniel Guagnin), in:
Kriminologisches Journal, 46 Jg. 2014, H.3, 134-148.
“Profiling technologies and fundamental rights and values:
regulatory challenges and perspectives from European Data Protection
Authorities” (with Francesca Bosco, Valeria Ferraris, Daniel Guagnin
and Bert-Jaap Koops), in: Gutwirth et al. (eds.): Reforming Data
Protection: The Global Perspective, Springer, Dordrecht, 2014.
“Police work and databases: profiling political activism”
(with Daniel Guagnin), in: Creemers, Niklas; Guagnin, Daniel; Koops,
Bert-Jaap (eds.): Profiling Technologies in Practice - Applications
and Impact on Fundamental Rights and Values, forthcoming.
“Profiling Technologies and Fundamental Rights. An Introduction”
(with Francesca Bosco, Valeria Ferraris, Daniel Guagnin, Bert-Jaap
Koops, and Elise Vermeersch), in: Creemers, Niklas; Guagnin, Daniel;
Koops, Bert-Jaap (eds.): Profiling Technologies in Practice -
Applications and Impact on Fundamental Rights and Values,
forthcoming.
“Die Konstruktion von Wissen und Verdacht
in soziotechnischen Netzwerken. Zur polizeilichen Praxis der Nutzung
von Datenbanken und Datenanalysetools“, in: Grutzpalk, Jonas (ed.):
Polizeiliches Wissen, forthcoming.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Die Versprechungen des Rechts. Dritter Kongress der deutschsprachigen
Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen, “Datenbanken in der Polizeipraxis:
Zur computergestützten Konstruktion von Verdacht“, Berlin,
September 2015.
Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme
der Ordnung von Freiheit. 26. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der
deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, “Sammeln,
Speichern, Analysieren in Polizeidatenbanken: Protest zwischen
Aktivismus und ‘politisch motivierter Kriminalität‘“,
Duisburg, September 2015.
The 6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference
(SSN), “Profiling: risks, potentials and room for action”,
Barcelona, April 2014.
Technik und Protest, “Sammeln, Speichern, Analysieren:
polizeiliches Wissen und politischer Aktivismus”, Berlin, September
2014.
PROFILING: Final Conference, “Gathering, Storage,
Analysis: Profiling Political Activism”, Rome, September 2014.
Computer, Privacy and Data Protection 2015 (CPDP), “Police
Databases and the Fight against 'Politically Motivated Crime' in
Germany”, Brussels, January 2015.
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