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ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

May 19, 2026

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Some US police departments seem to be adopting AI-assisted police report products despite the technology’s deal-breaking civil liberties problems, some of which (such as evidentiary/contamination of memory issues) are not even theoretically solvable. We laid this out in our 2024 white paper on AI-assisted police reports . But there have also been questions about the degree to which the technology even offers advantages for police officers and departments — questions that recent work by criminologists is intensifying.…