Great Movies Revisited: What Demolition Man Can Teach Europe about How Crime Should be Fought
A relic of a more brutish past, Simon Phoenix enters the year 2032—a placid utopia, where police act more like customer service re…
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RoboCop Rising
Policing is on the brink of a transformation. From AI-driven surveillance and predictive policing to robotic law enforcement and private security forces, the future of public order may look radically different from today. But will these advancements enhance security—or erode civil liberties? This issue explores the rapid evolution of law enforcement in a world of increasing political instability, technological acceleration, and shifting societal norms.
Great Movies Revisited: What Demolition Man Can Teach Europe about How Crime Should be Fought
A relic of a more brutish past, Simon Phoenix enters the year 2032—a placid utopia, where police act more like customer service re…
Between Robocops and Precogs: China’s Novel Approach to Policing
In the streets of Shenzhen and Xinjiang’ high-security zones, the future of law enforcement is taking shape.
Outsourcing Security: Gated Communities, Paramilitary Forces, and Bodyguards for Tourists
The age of the state’s monopoly on policing is over. Confidence in public law enforcement has collapsed, leaving a void which is n…
Enter the Digital Panopticon: Surveillance, Thought Crime, and the End of Privacy
Picture a prison with its cells arranged in a circle around a central watchtower, allowing a single guard to observe any cell at a…
Preparedness or Paranoia? How Germany is Militarising its Law Enforcement
A helicopter hums over a training ground on the outskirts of Berlin. Below, a squad of masked officers moves in formation, stormin…
Politicised Police: The Crumbling Perception of ‘Neutral’ Law Enforcement
In the West, the idea of impartial law enforcement is starting to look more like a noble myth than a lived reality.
Outlaws with Drones, Cops with Paperwork: The Tech War Worldwide Law Enforcement is Losing
"Technology breeds crime, and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it…
One AI, Many Laws: The Struggle to Centralise Policing in the EU
The coordination of AI policies across EU member states requires taking into account varying national sensitivities.
The Changing Face of Policing. What Europe’s Demographic Transformation Means for Law Enforcement
Born in Uganda to Muslim Punjabi parents, Tarique Ghaffur fled to the UK in 1972 following military dictator Idi Amin’s expulsion …
The Police’s Newest Toys: Drones in The Sky, 5G-Internet, and Spherical Robots
In 1983, Ceaușescu's communist dictatorship issued decree No. 98/1983. Despite its nondescript name, following its enactment, all …
Fingered by the Algorithm: The Future of Justice
Minority Report, I, Robot, The Terminator, and The Matrix, once considered pure fiction, now feel eerily prescient.
Editorial: Rule, Resist, or Relent. The Future of Policing
Human-driven justice is fading, giving way to a high-tech police state—inevitable, impersonal, and entirely controlled by those wh…