Colonel Glover predicts that within a decade, policing will become far more investigative and nuanced due to technology and AI, forcing most officers to retrain and adopt new mindsets beyond traditional tactics. ✦ AI generated
Colonel Glover · a16z Podcast · 2026-05-18 · original ↗
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“Colonel Glover, any final words that you want to share for the people that want to work with law enforcement, work with public safety officials?”
We're going to see such a shift and change that most of the cops out on the in the field are going to have to change the way their skill set is shaped because it's going to be a little bit more investigative. It's going to be a little bit more nuanced... It may not be about, you know, kicking in doors and and other things. It's going to be looking at the technical aspects of, you know, this video you just received and looking at AI.
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9:45looking to figure out the best ways of implementation and trying to get ahead of the curve with technology. We know that it's one of the It's going to be something that's going to really dominate this profession over the next 10 years is that we're going to see such a shift and change that most of the cops out on the in the field are going to have to change
10:05the way their skill set is shaped because it's going to be a little bit more investigative. It's going to be a little bit more nuanced. Um you're going to have to have a different frame uh work of being able to work with in terms of your mindset because it's not going to look the same anymore 10 years from now. Um it It's It may not be about, you
10:23know, um kicking in doors and and other things. It's going to be looking at the the technical aspects of, you know, this video you just received and looking at AI and and certain things that are going to come up from a fraud standpoint as well. And so, you're It's going to be very nuanced in that way. And so, the It's They're They're every leader is looking at how do we make this
10:44adjustment? How do we become a little bit more flexible and adaptable to what's going to be the need? Awesome. Well, thank you both, gentlemen. Appreciate the work you do uh out in the field uh as technologists and thanks for being with us here today. Thank you. Thank you. >> [music]