Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports
Axon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser, has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops…
Study Claims Predictive Policing Software Is Actually Pretty Terrible at Predicting Crimes
Image: zef art (Shutterstock) Predictive policing—the trendy law enforcement field that uses data collection and analysis to try to predict where crimes will occur—has been wildly popular with police departments…
Saw X Was So Gnarly, Its Editor Had the Cops Called on Him
Image: Lionsgate Watching the Saw movies isn’t for everyone—across the now 10-movie franchise, audiences have seen people mutilate themselves in order to stay alive or die trying in some pretty…
New Orleans’ Facial Recognition Systems Led to Exactly Zero Arrests in Nine Months
Police in New Orleans have been using facial recognition for the better part of a year, but the tech hasn’t had much of an impact on the city’s violent crime…
AI System Helped Cops Identify a Drug Trafficker Just by Analyzing His Driving Patterns
Police in New York recently managed to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker seemingly by magic. The perp in question, David Zayas, was traveling through the small upstate town of…
‘Cops’ has been canceled at the Paramount Network
Looks like someone did some reevaluating. On Tuesday, Paramount Network announced it would no longer produce Cops, a half-hour reality series that takes camera crews on police ride-alongs and investigations.…