As we find ourselves providing public safety in the complex setting of a continuing pandemic in 2022, it is impossible to avoid the growing nexus with technology on so many levels, as it enables, constrains, and even defines our police agencies and the communities we serve.

This is a consideration for professional policing that has both broad and deep implications that rapidly and constantly change. We encounter technology and the resulting data created in small devices worn on a wrist; in the indispensable mobile phone nearly all of us carry, in smarter and better-connected vehicles; and in homes or offices that now allow for intelligent and automated lights, locks, water, appliances, and security.