, Senior Policy Analyst , ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project May 19, 2026 Subscribe to the Free Future Newsletter Free Future home 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. We can debate the civil liberties problems with a new technology all day long, but if the tech doesn’t work, why bother?…