Axon's triumphal rise is just a small part of the increasing datafication of the US law-and-order sector, which is, in turn, just part of the wider transformation of social governance and individual self-governance in the United States and many other nations. Governed this way, the social world stops being a space of dialogue and debate, let alone of democratic change, and becomes what the data industry calls a propensity and probability spectrum, governed by knowledges that are largely in corporate hands.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 645