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Discuss how technology is used and related to boundary-less in police activities. Include an example in your response.
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New technology has huge implications for policing. The advent of
always-connected smartphones and tablets, backed by access to large
amounts of public and police-specific data, means that there is
potential for officers to be better informed and make better use of
their time than before.
If the U.S. criminal justice system looks radically different
decades from now, we’ll owe at least some thanks to technology. But
even as a smartphone-armed citizenry and a push for greater data
transparency strive to make police more accountable (and
eventually, prisons less populated), we’re still in the very early
stages of a transformation that’s going to require a lot hard
work—and way better data.
The more digitally connected we are, the most we understand what
happens to each other, whether it’s in South Bronx or in South
Africa,” said Malika Saada Saar, a human rights lawyer who works at
Google to help the company find ways to use technology for social
justice. Her efforts include convincing Google to join the Ban the
Box movement (which urges employers to omit questions about prior
criminal convictions on job applications), as well as a virtual
reality experience that simulates solitary confinement in an
American prison. “Every genocide, every act of rape, every war
crime happens in the context of isolation and silence. Technology
allows us this powerful opportunity to disrupt that silence and
disrupt that isolation.”
Forensic science, fingerprinting, cars, computers, radios,
driver’s license databases, cameras, pepper spray, body cams,
bulletproof vests, firearms, handcuffs, and other tools could all
be considered “technology”.
https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/dec/18/criminal-justice-technology