{"id":9031,"date":"2023-02-20T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/the-big-idea-should-robots-take-over-fighting-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:41:38","slug":"the-big-idea-should-robots-take-over-fighting-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/the-big-idea-should-robots-take-over-fighting-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: should robots take over fighting crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could artificial intelligence offer a fairer and more efficient way of policing?<\/p>\n

San Francisco\u2019s board of supervisors recently voted to let their police deploy robots equipped with lethal explosives \u2013 before backtracking<\/a> several weeks later. In America, the vote sparked a fierce debate on the militarisation of the police, but it raises fundamental questions for us all about the role of robots and AI in fighting crime, how policing decisions are made and, indeed, the very purpose of our criminal justice systems. In the UK, officers operate under the principle of \u201cpolicing by consent\u201d rather than by force. But according to the 2020 Crime Survey for England and Wales, public confidence in the police has fallen from 62% in 2017 to 55%. One recent poll<\/a> asked Londoners if the Met was institutionally sexist and racist. Nearly two thirds answered either \u201cprobably\u201d or \u201cdefinitely\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is perhaps unsurprising, given the high-profile cases of crimes by police officers such as Wayne Couzens<\/a>, who murdered Sarah Everard, and , who recently pleaded guilty to 49 offences including rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n

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\nCould artificial intelligence offer a fairer and more efficient way of policing?
\nSan Francisco\u2019s board of supervisors recently voted to let their police deploy robots equipped with lethal explosives \u2013 before backtracking several weeks later. In America, the vote sparked a fierce debate on the militarisation of the police, but it raises fundamental questions for us all about the role of robots and AI in fighting crime, how policing decisions are made and, indeed, the very purpose of our criminal justice systems. In the UK, officers operate under the principle of \u201cpolicing by consent\u201d rather than by force. But according to the 2020 Crime Survey for England and Wales, public confidence in the police has fallen from 62% in 2017 to 55%. One recent poll asked Londoners if the Met was institutionally sexist and racist. Nearly two thirds answered either \u201cprobably\u201d or \u201cdefinitely\u201d.
\nThis is perhaps unsurprising, given the high-profile cases of crimes by police officers such as Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard, and , who recently pleaded guilty to 49 offences including rape and sexual assault. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could artificial intelligence offer a fairer and more efficient way of policing? San Francisco\u2019s board of supervisors recently voted to let their police deploy robots equipped with lethal explosives \u2013 before backtracking several weeks later. In America, the vote sparked a fierce debate on the militarisation of the police, but it raises fundamental questions for …<\/p>\n

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