There should be concern about the increased use of assistive technology in police work. When it doesn’t make sense for an individual person to filter through data to extract pertinent information, it becomes the job of an algorithm to decide what information to return. For example, the gunshot detectors. It doesn’t make sense for an officer to be listening to every live feed, so an algorithm decides what is a gunshot and what isn’t. When information is passed through an algorithm, it might be misinterpreted based on the biases of the creators or because of a lack of available training data.
