“…The rise of evidence-based policing as a method of making decisions about “what works in policing” (Sherman, 2013) advocates the use of technology, which, in turn, can introduce such biases. Although using scientific evidence unarguably has benefits, evidence-based practice per se is not immune to bias (Every-Palmer and Howick, 2014; Wieringa et al, 2018). In medicine, the very domain that informed evidence-based policing (Sherman, 1998), bias has been demonstrated in tested and proven hypotheses, study designs and selective publications (Every-Palmer and Howick, 2014).…”