The Metropolitan Police are understood to be planning to use live facial recognition technology on London’s Oxford Street. Sadiq Khan has indicated the deployment will go ahead on…

Live video feeds used by a police force can scan hundreds of faces every minute to instantly cross-reference their profiles. However, critics have raised concerns over the…

Thames Valley Police has postponed the initial deployment of its live facial recognition technology in Witney Market Square, Oxfordshire, due to resource pressures. The technology…

Facewatch is launching a system feature in the UK this autumn that will alert police within an average of four seconds when a serious offender triggers a live facial recognition…

American cities including Troy, New York, and Oakland are facing increasing public resistance against AI-powered automated licence plate reader networks. While supporters argue…

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has urged New York City officials to reject the expansion of artificial intelligence-powered surveillance and policing in public…

A Derbyshire Police detective has been suspended and placed under criminal investigation after allegedly using an AI chatbot to generate biased evidence and case documents. The…

Robert Dillon, a 52-year-old commercial crab fisherman from Fort Myers, and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a lawsuit against the city of Jacksonville Beach, two…

A Florida resident, Robert Dillon — whose first name has also been reported as Richard — has filed a lawsuit against police following an alleged wrongful arrest caused by an…

A 52-year-old Florida man, Robert Dillon, has filed a lawsuit against several law enforcement agencies after being wrongfully arrested and prosecuted due to an artificial…

Essex Police has paused its facial recognition programme following a Cambridge University study that found the technology was statistically more likely to correctly identify Black…

Last summer, the Burlington Police Department became the first agency in its state to use artificial intelligence to review body camera footage, reflecting a wider expansion of AI…

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a two-day public workshop on 24–25 June 2024 to examine law enforcement's use of person-based and place-based…

Police officers are adopting artificial intelligence chatbots to turn hours-long crime report writing into a process taking only seconds. Software programmes developed by…

A group of seven Democratic members of Congress has issued a public letter demanding that the Justice Department stop granting funds to predictive policing projects unless it can…

An investigation by Gizmodo and The Markup revealed that predictive policing software used by law enforcement agencies disproportionately targets low-income areas and communities…

Predictive policing programmes in the United States and internationally are experiencing a significant decline in usage following public backlash and issues surrounding…

Recent protests over law enforcement abuses have drawn attention to concerns that artificial intelligence programmes—including facial recognition, predictive policing, and risk…

Santa Cruz, California, has become the first city in the United States to outright ban the use of predictive policing algorithms as law enforcement faces national scrutiny over…

The Santa Cruz City Council in California has unanimously passed an ordinance permanently banning predictive policing and prohibiting the city from using facial recognition…

In courtrooms across the United States, judges frequently use algorithmically generated risk assessment reports to gauge the likelihood of defendants reoffending and assist in…

Predictive policing software, which uses algorithms to predict where crimes will occur and direct officers to those areas, is used by dozens of police departments across the…