In my interactions with police at city council meetings and community meetings, the police far too often don't even understand how the technology that they are buying works, despite paying thousands or millions in taxpayer dollars for it.
Mike Katz-Lacabe
A tragic example of how surveillance tech dominates police investigation. There are many flaws here but the biggest is how police unthinkingly trust the tech. timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/0...
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
