I refuse to accept this as a forgone conclusion. Clearly there is a place for a healthy, helpful police force in modern society. It&#x27;s probably not even that far from what we have - the key being the &quot;broken windows&quot; policy applied to the police themselves, and some critical changes in policy (making it illegal to lie about the law, or to coerce behavior based on a misrepresentation of the law). And of course, reforming the justice system to give citizens the kind of justice our founding fathers intended to give them.<p>Technologies ability to record interactions and play them back later has already had a (positive) impact on police behavior, and I can only see that getting better.<p>I also think that technology will revolutionize the justice system - I&#x27;ve been thinking a lot about what a distributed, remote jury trial system would look like, especially when there is excellent sensor data surrounding any contentious event.