06/17/2026
We have published a reference guide on the technologies, governance frameworks, and evidentiary pressures shaping policing across the United States and Canada in 2026.
It is organized around three operational realities:
✪ How agencies are working differently.
✪ Where governance is catching up.
✪ How courts are responding to new categories of digital evidence.
Inside the guide:
▸ Generative AI in reports, and the "shadow AI" governance gap
▸ Real-Time Crime Centers and Canadian Real Time Operations Centres
▸ Drone-as-First-Responder programs and FY25 NDAA compliance
▸ Facial recognition: investigative use versus real-time surveillance
▸ Deepfakes in criminal cases (Mendones v. Cushman & Wakefield, R v Medow)
▸ Privacy, oversight, and public trust requirements
▸ Digital and physical evidence accountability as a unified system
Read the full guide: https://rtn.global/44i73uk