Princeton. She is a specialist in 19th and 20th century history. She specializes in gender, race, labor, and the history of the United States south. A little bit about her publications, which are multiple awardwinning, her most recent book is bound in wedlock slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. Published in 2017. A book about African Americans and marriage in the 19th century, a winner of multiple awards. And a variety of other prizes. The list goes on and on. Let me mention her first book about women after the civil war. Another multiple prizewinning book. Dr. Hunter has agreed to come here today and talk with us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war, a topic always on peoples agenda for teaching and discussion but particularly widely discussed earlier this summer the anniversary of juneteenth. That is what got us started thinking about inviting her to speak with us about that history, which is complicated, excitin
Sarah i see my role as shedding light on the technological processes but also social processes of how the police are using big data. Do myd really like to work and pull back the veil, reduce the amount of secrecy so that different people can do with it what they will. Community groups can do with it what they will come up policymakers can do with it what they will. At least reduce the imbalance or the information asymmetry, where civilians dont know what the police are doing with big data. Contributingy of some sort of transparency in the practice is playing out on the ground. Susan sarah brayne is an assistant professor of sociology at ut austin and the author of a new book called protect and surveilled. Thank you for spending an hour with cspan talking about police use of big data. Sarah thank you. Q a q aall all q a are available on our website, cspan. Org. Sies washington journal, every day taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and to discuss policy issues that
Cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing daily operations . I quickly realized there was not actually ironically very good data on police use of big data, and thats when i decided to p
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing
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