Why not worry about the AI and work to try to get rid of bad cops?

There is no sense in limiting yourself to doing the next-to-impossible task first.

People do have limits, and doing both is inherently harder than doing one. Every ounce of effort spent working on something that isn't the problem takes away from the effort to actually address the problem.

I'd rather bad cops not be able to use AI to be worse cops, thank you. I think that's the easier task, because of qualified immunity. AI hallucination is an issue well known to happen widely.

That's completely backwards. The whole point is, giving AI to bad cops only makes things worse.

They are going to get AI, regardless of what you or I or anyone else piling on thinks about it. It will happen. That's how this works. That's how this has always worked. For the cops, it's just a matter of waiting for the right crisis to come along to justify it.

So we need to make sure the people and processes are in place to prevent, recognize, and redress the inevitable abuses.