AI Cannot Be Probable Cause

AI Cannot Be Probable Cause

From Two Cops One Donut by Sgt. Erik Lavigne

March 30, 2026 · 1h 50m · Season 3 · Episode 13

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of AI in law enforcement and the legal nuances surrounding police pursuits and exigent circumstances.

You can learn a lot about the law by watching what people argue about in real time. Tonight we’re joined by Von Kliem, the Force Science “poster boy,” and we jump straight into the questions listeners actually care about: when a suspect runs, can police follow them into a house, and what counts as exigent circumstances or hot pursuit under the Fourth Amendment? From there we zoom out to the future of law enforcement technology. We talk AI in courts, algorithmic bias, and why facial recogniti...

People in this episode

Host: Sgt. Erik Lavigne

Guest: Von Kliem

Topics covered

  • law enforcement
  • Fourth Amendment
  • AI technology
  • algorithmic bias
  • facial recognition
  • exigent circumstances
  • hot pursuit

Keywords

  • law
  • police
  • AI
  • exigent circumstances
  • Fourth Amendment
  • algorithmic bias
  • facial recognition

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Organizations: Force Science, Fourth Amendment

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