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28-year-old Georgia man Randal Reid was thrown in jail for nearly a week based on a facial recognition match that should've been obvious was false.

Man Accuses Cops of Throwing Him in Jail Based on False Facial Recognition Match

By Frank Landymore

A woman protesting an allegedly wrongful eviction unleashed her wrath by siccing hundreds of bees on cops serving the eviction notice.

Woman Attacks Police With Swarm of Furious Bees

By Frank Landymore

Police in Oakland are hoping to arm robots with lethal shotguns, called the PAN disrupter. Why? Because that's just what we do now, apparently.

Oakland Police Want to Arm Robots With Shotguns, Because We Live in a Dystopian Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops Upload Image of Suspect Generated From DNA, Then Delete After Mass Criticism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI that predicts crime before it happens is being implemented in several US cities — but it's founder says that he forsees no police abuse of the system.

Professor Says He Foresees No Issues With His AI That Predicts Crimes Before They Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New Jersey has revealed that it used a newborn DNA sample to charge the child's father with a crime from 1996, which begs the question — what next?

Cops Use Newborn Baby’s DNA to Nail Dad for Crime from the 90s

By Noor Al-Sibai

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.

Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All those videos of cops having so-called "seizures" after touching small amounts of fentanyl-laced drugs may be more psychological than anything else.

Cops Keep Having Impossible Fentanyl “Seizures” on Camera For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

The leading stun gun manufacturer's plan to put Taser drones in schools is so bad, the company's own ethics watchdog shot it down.

Drama Engulfs Plan to Zap School Shooters With Taser-Toting Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Actor Ezra Miller was apparently having a normal one during their recent arrest in Hawaii when they claimed they filmed an altercation to put it into NFTs.

Actor Ezra Miller Claims They Filmed Alleged Assault to Turn It Into NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A grisly Taser immolation raises deep questions about law enforcement's wielding of high tech weaponry against the public.

Man Bursts Into Flames After Being Tased by Police

By Noor Al-Sibai

More Cops Have Died from COVID-19 than Guns Since Start of Pandemic

More Cops Have Died from COVID-19 than Guns Since Start of Pandemic

By Tony Ho Tran

Police departments are increasingly relying on systems that use sensors and artificial intelligence to keep track of gunshots, the AP reports.

Crime-Fighting AI Put a Guy in Jail for a Year With Little Evidence

By Victor Tangermann

A man was charged with rape after uploading his genetic code to a genaelogy site, giving police the DNA match they needed for a case from 2007.

Man Charged With Rape After Uploading His DNA to Ancestry Site

By Dan Robitzski

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

By Dan Robitzski

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.

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Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, police raided the home of data scientist and whistleblower Rebekah Jones, who had refused to manipulate data for the state Health Department.

Police Raid Home of COVID-19 Whistleblower

By Dan Robitzski

A pilot program in Jackson, Mississippi would give police real-time access to participants' Amazon Ring security cameras.

Amazon Will Let Police Livestream Your Ring Doorbell Camera

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of activists are training new facial recognition algorithms to ID cops who hide their names while cracking down on protests.

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Activists Build Facial Recognition to ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges

By Dan Robitzski

Police reportedly trained a dog to sniff out electronic storage devices, which cops claim helps them find hidden digital evidence.

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Police Trained a Dog to Sniff Out Electronic Evidence

By Dan Robitzski

A London courtroom declared the South Wales Police's notorious use of mass facial recognition surveillance is unlawful due to a lack of safeguards.

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UK Court Slams Automatic Facial Recognition Tech as “Unlawful”

By Dan Robitzski

After someone tried to burn down the mayor's house in Sandefjord, Norway, police hope a nearby Tesla on Sentry Mode caught the perp on video.

Police Are Seeking Tesla Owners to Solve an Attempted Murder

By Dan Robitzski

Last month, San Diego police repeatedly tapped streetlight cameras to surveil BLM protestors: a chilling use of smart city tech that threatens public trust.

Oh No, Spying on Protestors Might Make the Public Distrust Surveillance

By Dan Robitzski

According to an investigation by The New York Times, the number of murders has spiked in several larger US cities in the first half of 2020.

Murders Have Spiked in Major US Cities Since the Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

New proposed legislation would keep facial recognition technology out of the hands of all levels of law enforcement in the U.S.

Senators Propose a National Ban on Police Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.

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Cops Arrested an Innocent Man Because Facial Recognition Told Them To

By Dan Robitzski

At protests across the country, police have frequently been showing up without wearing their medical masks during a pandemic.

Here Are a Bunch of Photos of Cops Not Wearing Masks

By Dan Robitzski

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.

Here’s How Deadly Military Tech Ended up in Police Hands

By Dan Robitzski

Police in China, Italy, Dubai, and multiple other countries are now wearing thermal cameras embedded in their helmets to scan for fevers.

Cops Around the World Are Scanning for Fevers With Helmet Cams

By Dan Robitzski

Baltimore police will spend half of 2020 surveilling the entire city with a network of spy planes, putting everyone under constant monitoring.

Baltimore Police Plan to Monitor the Whole City With Spy Planes

By Dan Robitzski

GEDMatch, the DNA ancestry company that famously helped police track down a serial killer, just got bought by a genetic forensics firm.

Tech Firm That Develops Tools for Police Buys Massive DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

The cops of San Luis Potosi, Mexico just announced plans to buy a Cybertruck fleet, making it the second police force interested in the vehucle.

Advanced Transport

Mexican Cops Pre-Order Fleet of Cybertrucks

By Dan Robitzski

To the surprsie of nobody, the Dubai Police department is officially planning on adding Tesla Cybertrucks to its fleet.

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Dubai is Adding Tesla Cybertrucks to its Police Car Fleet

By Victor Tangermann

A Fremont police officer had to cut a high-speed highway pursuit short after his modified Tesla Model S cop car's batteries ran down.

Tesla Police Car Runs Out of Battery During High Speed Chase

By Victor Tangermann

Bernie Sanders just announced that he would ban police from using facial recognition tech if he wins in 2020 as part of a broader police reform.

Bernie Sanders Vows to Ban Police From Using Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

The New York Police Department is growing a massive DNA database of thousands of genetic profiles, The New York Times reports.

Police Are Collecting DNA From People Without Telling Them

By Victor Tangermann

When police departments partner with Amazon's smart doorbell company, Ring, the company gets control over all statements to the press or public.

Amazon Is Feeding Talking Points About Its Spy Doorbell to Police

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon cut a confidential deal with a police force to push its doorbell camera, Ring, onto the local community in exchange for surveillance tech.

Florida Police Cut a Secret Deal to Promote Amazon’s Ring Cameras

By Dan Robitzski

Leaked NYPD documents reveal the police department's strategy for building public trust through funny social media posts.

Leaked NYPD Documents Instruct Cops to Be Funny Online

By Dan Robitzski

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials have cloned a top-performing police dog, state media announced, with the goal of stamping out genetically identical dog cops.

Science & Energy

China Clones Top Police Dog, With Goal of “Mass Production”

By Jon Christian

Indian police just swore in KP-Bot as a sub-inspector. The robot police officer will work behind the front desk and direct visitors as needed.

India Just Swore in Its First Robot Police Officer

By Dan Robitzski

"The NYPD will pursue all legal remedies to prevent the continued posting of this irresponsible and dangerous information."

NYPD Demands That Google Stop Flagging DWI Checkpoints on Waze

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon responded to recent criticism its facial recognition system, Rekognition, by claiming safeguards were in place. The cops using it disagree.

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Cops Are Using Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

The Fremont Police Department announced that it will add a 2014 Tesla Model S to its fleet of patrol vehicles — the same city where Teslas are built.

This Police Department’s New Cop Car is a Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

The LAPD’s Terrifying Palantir-Powered Policing Algorithm Was Just Uncovered and Yes It’s Basically ‘Minority Report’

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The LAPD’s Terrifying Palantir-Powered Policing Algorithm Was Just Uncovered and Yes It’s Basically ‘Minority Report’

By Dan Robitzski

Smart Doorbells That Call The Police Are Going to Endanger Some Innocent People

Smart Doorbells That Call The Police Are Going to Endanger Some Innocent People

By Victor Tangermann

Welsh Police Used Face Scanning Software That Incorrectly Flagged Thousands

Artificial Intelligence

Welsh Police Used Face Scanning Software That Incorrectly Flagged Thousands

By Dan Robitzski

When Can Law Enforcement Look at Your Devices? A Definitive List

When Can Law Enforcement Look at Your Devices? A Definitive List

By Claudia Geib

The NYPD Wants Everyone’s Licenses for Facial Recognition. How Concerned Should You Be?

The NYPD Wants Everyone’s Licenses for Facial Recognition. How Concerned Should You Be?

By Claudia Geib

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The Tesla Model X: Canada’s Future Police Recruit

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Artificial Intelligence

Ford Makes Plans for an Automated Police Car That Takes the Law Into Its Own Hands

By Chelsea Gohd

A “City of the Future” Reveals the Hoversurf Flying Bike

Advanced Transport

A “City of the Future” Reveals the Hoversurf Flying Bike

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Dubai Wants Robots to Make up 25% of Its Police Force by 2030

Body Cameras Will Be Mandatory for All NYPD Patrol Officers by 2019

Body Cameras Will Be Mandatory for All NYPD Patrol Officers by 2019

Investigators Are Using Advanced Augmented Reality to Help Solve Crimes

Virtual Reality

Investigators Are Using Advanced Augmented Reality to Help Solve Crimes

By Jelor Gallego

Net-Wielding Interceptor Drones to Police the Skies Above Tokyo

Net-Wielding Interceptor Drones to Police the Skies Above Tokyo