When the Police Report Is Written by an Algorithm, Every Error Becomes Evidence

The conversation about AI in criminal justice spent a decade focused on prediction tools — systems that assigned scores, probabilities, risk levels that courts were asked to weigh. That framing was contentious but at least legible: if COMPAS said "high risk," you could argue in court about what the model measured and whether it measured it fairly. Automated police report drafting relocates the problem entirely. The algorithm is no longer advising the document — it is writing it. And a document reads in court as a record of events, not…