Re:ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more
by akiselev on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:57PM
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Most of the successful police reforms (that I'm aware of here in California) have revolved around community policing and getting back to that human element. The rest have been oversight based, like the police body cameras.
Policing without infringing on rights is a very hard problem and I don't think many serious reformers see any one solution or ideology as sufficient on its own.
My reading of most HN threads has been in favor of more automation, objective verifiabilty, and technological use in law enforcement, e.g. body cams.
Also strong condemnation of shoot-first-ask-later habits, which are inarguably more appealing when a person is at risk instead of an automaton.
It would seem to be that those wanting police reform would be most interested in removing as much of the problematic human element as possible.