“…Predictive policing has attracted an equal level of concern among scholars, who have addressed 'the rise of predictive policing' (Ferguson, 2017) and the 'algorithmic patrol' (Wilson, 2018) as the new predominant method of policing, which thus impacts other methods of policing. Countryspecific studies of predictive policing exist in Germany (Egbert, 2018), France (Polloni, 2015), Switzerland (Aebi, 2015) and the UK (Stanier, 2016). A common concern is the predictive policing allure of objectivity, and the creative role police still have in creating inputs for automated calculations of future crime: 'Their choices, priorities, and even omissions become the inputs algorithms use to forecast crime' (Joh, 2017a).…”