If you want to see where Policing is going, check out the “International
Association of Chiefs of Police” (IACP) convention in Orlando. Besides golf and hospitality suites, the
convention was packed with new technologies like body cameras, robots, flying
drones and expensive data-driven, AI-enabled, integrated, autonomous decision
support systems. And loads and loads of salesmen.
If there was one theme, it’s that body cameras are here to
stay, so let’s figure out all the repercussions on policing: from evidence, to
PR and personnel issues.
A search of the session topics at the convention included homelessness(6),
hate-crimes(3), juvenile enforcement and custody(3), harassment and Discrimination(11) and Public
Trust(70). Community/Police relations had the highest number of sessions at 102.
Post-Shooting Personnel Support had 16 sessions.
The good news is that not every session was a sales
job. There were serious topics covered by
real researchers. Important sessions included “Improving Clearance Rates for
Serious Crimes,” “Improve Employee Accountability by Building Employee Trust”
and “Me Too, Now What: Shifting Social Norms in the Workplace and Leading the
Way.” Also see “History as a Foundation
of Building Trust and Legitimacy: Civil Rights and Law Enforcement” and “Body
Cameras: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”
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