Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the cultural landscape. Uptake across various sectors, including law enforcement, quickly followed, usually with minimal foresight and little to no guardrails, like effective policies or laws, to govern AI use.

Starting in 2022, with the proliferation of publicly available LLMs such as ChatGPT, we began to...

Growing concerns about police use of AI could erode the public’s perception of trust in the legal system.