Nick Koeman from the National Police of the Netherlands. He went on to mention however that the technology is not in use for making arrests because it could be too distracting to operators. Cool, but what does this mean for the United States?
The key question is could such a technology
Implemented in the United States? Historically, law enforcement agencies have in fact been on the front lines of funding and testing new technology; think radio transceivers, biometrics, even body cameras, all made their way around the police circuit before becoming commonplace technologies. And while we shouldn’t expect to see.
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It’s likely that similar pilot programs could begin with well funded local police forces like the NYPD or the San Francisco Police Department, both amazon database of which have already received several offers to test similar virtual systems. A benefit to consider when we talk about visual technology in our police force is the opportunity to create greater accountability in one of the public sector’s most important functions.
Liberal democracies long have struggled
Minimize or eliminate elements of bias in their systems of criminal justice, and AR could allow for the complete reconstruction and visualization of a adhering to visual identity crime scene for investigators and juries, a feat until this point only attempted with a lot of paperwork and physical reenactment. Finding the right balance of AR and human investigation in the criminal justice system will be a difficult task. Law enforcement can be innovative, but it can also be change-averse and prefer to instead trust procedures.
That have worked for decades.
We can’t just abandon innovation because it sounds rich data strange. If you ask me we should follow the Dutch example, who knows, it might even (and probably will) become the new normal. William McNamara is part of the GovLoop Featured Blogger program, where we feature blog posts by government voices from all across the country (and world!).
