The company then relies on the half-man, half-machine Robocop. Its droid gruesomely kills an innocent person. The 1987 blockbuster pointed to a terrifying future where a nefarious corporation takes over policing in gang-infested Detroit. But it's best to start with that "Robocop" analogy. Evolving software applications will let police record every encounter and match up a citizen's face with a database, thus enabling an officer to make an arrest or call in a SWAT team based solely on an algorithm. They are a tool for improving accountability and building community trust.īut police departments-spurred by tech companies that might make a fortune selling high-technology products to government agencies-are turning this public-spirited tool into a means of constant surveillance. By recording police interactions with the public, the cameras depict police interactions with the public. Such cameras have become ubiquitous for good reason. It's also gaining a foothold within American law-enforcement agencies that use body cameras.
Technology advances at such rapid speeds that such a day already is here in authoritarian China.
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Nearly a decade ago, the spokesman for a company that produces Tasers and body cameras for police departments envisioned the day when "every cop is Robocop." He was referring to then-nascent facial-recognition software, which lets police nab suspects based on an image grabbed from a camera, and a science-fiction movie about crime-fighting cyborg cops.
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