A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 15: The Fieldwork Notes
"I went straight to Desmond," said Halvorsen. "He already knew. That's the part that still winds me - he'd known for weeks, sat on it, kept gathering more data as if gathering more carefully might somehow fix what the gathering itself had already done." She pulled a battered folder from the stack. "My actual notes. Not the sanitised summary Pryor's model consumed - the real texture of what people told me, in their own words, about what it's like to live somewhere and be treated as a pattern waiting to misbehave."
Eight months of careful, consenting ethnographic interviews in Dockside, repurposed without most participants' knowledge into the statistical inputs for a predictive policing tool - interpretivism's ethical commitments violated by the very project it was meant to serve.