PASSAGE OF THE DAY: ""Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping who police stop, how reports are written, where officers patrol and how evidence is analyzed. The tech promises speed and efficiency. Its rapid spread is outpacing public rules, and could embed errors and bias deep within the criminal justice system, Axios reports."
POST: "How artificial intelligence is changing policing around the world," by Ted Gest, published by Criminal Justice Journalists, on January 2, 2026. (Ted Gest is president of Criminal Justice Journalists. He publishes a daily news digest on that site. Gest started covering crime and justice for his hometown newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and continued at U.S. News & World Report, where he also covered the White House, the Supreme Court and law schools. He is the author of “Crime & Politics” and the co-editor of the forthcoming “Inside the Upheaval of Journalism: Reporters Look Back on 50 Years of Covering the News.” He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.)
GIST: "Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping who police stop, how reports are written, where officers patrol and how evidence is analyzed.
The tech promises speed and efficiency. Its rapid spread is outpacing public rules, and could embed errors and bias deep within the criminal justice system, Axios reports.
Local law enforcement agencies are facing chronic staffing shortages amid pressures to reduce violent crime.
About 75% of officers say understaffing has delayed their backups in emergencies, and 56% say it has increased their exposure to high-risk calls, according to a Police1 survey.
Police from California to Hawaii are piloting generative-AI tools that turn body-camera audio into police narratives, shaving hours off paperwork and getting officers back on patrol.
Startup firm Longeye is testing AI analysis systems with 12 agencies, including one in Akron, Oh., that allows detectives to comb through hours of jail phone calls, interviews and police footage for evidence.
Law enforcement agencies are investing significantly in AI and AI-adjacent technologies such as drones, license-plate readers, gunshot-detection systems and advanced analytics.
The AI in law enforcement market is expected to grow from roughly $3.5 billion in 2024 to more than $6.6 billion by 2033, according to consulting firm Consainsights."
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https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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