{"id":63814,"date":"2026-04-10T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63814"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:36:54","slug":"wapo-police-explore-teaming-up-with-a-new-crime-fighting-partner-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63814","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Police explore teaming up with a new crime-fighting partner: AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/10\/ai-police-criminal-investigations\/\">Police explore teaming up with a new crime-fighting partner: AI<\/a> by Katie Mettler (&#8220;The Oklahoma City Police Department is one of 35 law enforcement agencies across the country in the early stages of adopting Longeye, which its San Francisco-based creator markets as an ethical, uncompromising way for all parts of the criminal legal system \u2014 police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, corrections officers \u2014 to fast-track the pursuit of justice. The tool exists in an ecosystem flooded with AI tech marketed to law enforcement: license plate readers, facial recognition software, ballistics analysis, crime report drafting, predictive policing. Many of those tools have been met with intense scrutiny from data privacy and police reform advocates, who argue that generative AI is prone to &#8216;hallucinate,&#8217; or draw faulty conclusions \u2014 mistakes that could weaponize a justice system that already has immense power to strip away a person\u2019s liberty.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Police explore teaming up with a new crime-fighting partner: AI by Katie Mettler (&#8220;The Oklahoma City Police Department is one of 35 law enforcement agencies across the country in the early stages of adopting Longeye, which its San Francisco-based &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,139,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-facial-recognition","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63815,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63814\/revisions\/63815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}