The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime ControlWith the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic regions, has become a regular and relied upon feature of policing. Many claim that these technological developments played a role in the crime drop of the