Armed and Dangerous: Does Technology Make for Better Policing?

Gabriel Nicholas, a joint fellow with CCS and the Information Law Institute, writes in the LA Review of Books about the competing perspectives of techno-optimism and techno-skepticism. As a jumping off point, he turns to Rick Smith’s The End of Killing: How Our Newest Technologies Can Solve Humanity’s Oldest Problem and Matt Stroud’s Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing. Nicholas explores how the differing views embodied in these works play out in broader efforts to examine and respond to the challenges of the complex relationship between technology and policing.