New police tech always follows a pattern. They say it is to improve existing proceedures, to make them faster/safer/better, but in the end the tech breaks free of old paradigms and gets used in the "bad" ways everyone predicted. Tasers were meant to be used only instead of guns, but now are used on non-threatening people who simply refuse orders. Speed/traffic cameras were to free up officers for other tasks, but cops do as much traffic enforcement as ever before. The cameras are used by companies for revenue. Drones are pitched as being the faster responce, going ahead of officers on foot. In a few years they will be the only response. They will be hovering outside our bedroom windows scouting for wrongdoing.
It is the tech cops dont want, the stuff we must force upon them such as dash/body cameras, that tends to promote the public good in the long run.
> They say it is to improve existing proceedures, to make them faster/safer/better, but in the end the tech breaks free of old paradigms and gets used in the "bad" ways everyone predicted.
This new technology will improve existing procedures. How can you oppose it?
This new procedure will use existing technologies. How can you oppose it?
It is the tech cops dont want, the stuff we must force upon them such as dash/body cameras, that tends to promote the public good in the long run.