Policing Criminal Justice Data
Контроль данных уголовного правосудия
2016-01-01
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POLICING CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA 543 than four recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions involved individuals wrongly arrested because of invalid warrants.7 And while governments in the past acted to correct errors, for instance by removing an exonerated individual's photo from a public "rogues' gallery," 8 such solicitude is now a quaint reminder of a bygone era.Today, the prevailing zeitgeist of governments is one of database expansion, 9 not quality control or accountability, and a blasé acceptance of data error and its negative consequences for individuals.10 Compounding matters, not only is the accuracy of databases accepted as an article of faith, 11 with courts according them a presumption of reliabil-
Key Findings
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Earlier practices, such as removing an exonerated person’s photograph from a public rogues’ gallery, illustrate a decline in governmental solicitude toward correcting records.
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Governments have shifted from correcting criminal-justice data errors toward expanding databases, with limited emphasis on quality control or accountability.
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Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions included cases involving individuals wrongly arrested because of invalid warrants.
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The prevailing approach treats database accuracy as an article of faith despite data errors causing negative consequences for individuals.
Research Object
criminal justice databases and government-maintained law-enforcement records
Research Subject
data accuracy, error correction, accountability, and the consequences of erroneous criminal justice records for individuals
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