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Drones, robots, license plate readers: Police grapple with community concerns as they turn to tech for their Jobs



       Last year, police in Mountain View, Calif., knew they had a potentially dangerous situation on their hands when a man barricaded himself inside an unlocked three-story townhouse along with the homeowners.


        Police received a call from the homeowners, who said the man was armed with a knife. They didn’t know whether they could safely enter the home and they didn’t know the man’s intentions. So instead of taking any risk, police called in their trusty sidekick: A camera-equipped drone.


       Officers on the ground used the drone to live stream video from the second- and third-floor windows, giving them the opportunity to assess the gravity of the situation and the location of the suspect. They quickly learned the man did not have any visible weapons on him.


        “There was no risk to life, so we let him sit in there and did our best to communicate with him,” said Lt. Scott Nelson of the Mountain View Police Department. “No use of force was needed.”


       Police across the United States are increasingly relying on emerging technologies to make their jobs more efficient. They are using drones, license plate readers, body cameras and gunshot detection systems to reduce injury and bodily harm. The move comes as some law enforcement agencies are struggling with retention and hiring during the pandemic, when hundreds of cops in cities including Los Angeles and New York were sidelined because of the spread of the coronavirus. As police departments determine which technologies to adopt, they are also grappling with growing concerns about privacy that these technologies bring and potential complications they could create for officers on the job.


        “Tech can be a great tool for law enforcement to use,” said Sgt. James Smallwood, Nashville-based treasurer of the national Fraternal Order of Police. But “as with anything else, we have to balance the line of privacy and meeting the expectation to promote public safety.”


      DJI, the Chinese tech company that makes many of the drones adopted by police departments, said more than 1,000 police departments across the country use some type of drone. Drones are proving to be a police force multiplier across the nation, aiding with everything from lost children to dangerous suspects to crash reconstruction. But Lisberg doesn’t think they’ll ever replace police officers.


       “You need a sense of humanity at work in policing,” he said. “A drone is a tool that helps accomplish the goals [police] already have. [To] do it better, safely and more efficiently.”


        Drones aren’t the only tech tools that police say have made them more efficient. More than 120 cities are using gunshot detection systems, which alert police to gunfire within the devices’ coverage area.


        The systems use sensors and algorithms that can identify and determine which loud bangs are probably gunshots. Within about 60 seconds, they can alert police to the precise location in which the gunshots were heard. That allows police to better deploy their resources.


       “Police chiefs are looking for innovative ways to deal with the responsibilities they have,” he said. “They’re finding ways to provide them even in areas where budgets are tight.”


         To be sure, not all of the technology is proving to be positive, says Griffith of Houston’s police union. He noted that while tech can add a level of efficiency, it also can increase stress levels for officers, who have been experiencing increased scrutiny for excessive use of force and discriminatory practices in recent years. Body cameras, for example, can help police and the community better understand the details around an incident in which an officer resorted to use of force. But the cameras also can catch small, sometimes minor policy violations from police that don’t affect the overall outcome of any situation, such as whether a police officer buckled his seat belt before pressing the gas, Griffith said.


        “We know that there will be more tech coming,” he said. “But we pray it’s something that will help [officers] and not make it to where they have to be perfect every minute of every day.”


        Police also have to walk a fine line when it comes to implementing new technology, taking into account the community’s comfort level and privacy concerns, they say.


     Farhang Heydari, executive director of the nonprofit Policing Project at New York University School of Law, said he’s mostly concerned with increasing access to private cameras and third-party databases and the ability to tie them together, which could create a new kind of surveillance, he said.


      That has the potential to magnify some of the harms of policing, like the overenforcement of low-level crime or the exacerbation of racial disparities. Ultimately, Heydari says, police shouldn’t be charged with deciding on their own what technology to use. Regulators and communities should, he said. 



ABRIL, Daniela. The Washington Post. March 9, 2022. Disponível em: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/09/police-technologies-future-of-work-dronesai-robots/ Acesso em: 21 janeiro 2024 (Texto adaptado). 
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Alternativa correta: B - Police contend with community concerns while embracing technology for their jobs.

1. Tema central da questão

Essa questão aborda interpretação e reescrita de frases em inglês. Você precisa identificar qual alternativa mantém o sentido original da frase: “Police grapple with community concerns as they turn to tech for their jobs”. O desafio é perceber o significado das palavras-chave e como elas são utilizadas no texto.

2. Teoria resumida e progressiva

No inglês, grapple with significa lutar com, enfrentar ou lidar com algo difícil. “As they turn to tech” expressa que, ao mesmo tempo em que adotam tecnologia, os policiais estão lidando com preocupações da comunidade. A habilidade testada é a compreensão de expressões idiomáticas e sequências lógicas.

3. Justificativa da alternativa correta

Alternativa B utiliza “contend with” (sinônimo de “grapple with” = enfrentar, lidar com) e “embracing technology” (adotando tecnologia), mantendo a ideia original. O conectivo “while” mostra simultaneidade, equivalente ao “as” da frase original.

Segundo o Cambridge Dictionary, “contend with” significa “to have to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation”, o que corresponde perfeitamente ao sentido de “grapple with”.

4. Análise das alternativas incorretas

  • A – “dismiss” significa ignorar ou desprezar, o que é incorreto, pois o texto mostra que os policiais estão enfrentando (não ignorando) as preocupações.
  • C – “fail to acknowledge” significa não reconhecer, deturpando o sentido da frase original, que é de lidar com as preocupações, não de ignorá-las.
  • D – “overlook” também significa ignorar, o que não condiz com “grapple with”.

5. Estratégia de resolução

Leia atentamente os verbos principais da frase original (“grapple with”) e das alternativas. Busque por sinônimos e observe se a ideia de simultaneidade é mantida (“as they turn to tech” vs “while embracing technology”). Questões desse tipo frequentemente trazem pegadinhas com palavras que parecem corretas, mas mudam o sentido.

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“A polícia lida com as preocupações da comunidade ao recorrer à tecnologia para o seu trabalho”

Alternativas

A

Ao recorrer à tecnologia para o seu trabalho, a polícia ignora as preocupações da comunidade.

B

A polícia lida com as preocupações da comunidade ao mesmo tempo em que adota a tecnologia para o seu trabalho.

C

Ao recorrer à tecnologia para o seu trabalho, a polícia não reconhece as preocupações da comunidade.

D

A polícia ignora as preocupações da comunidade ao recorrer à tecnologia para o seu trabalho.

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TROPAOBA!

✅️ Alternativa B — Correta.

➡️ B — “Police contend with community concerns while embracing technology for their jobs.”

➡️ Tradução: A polícia enfrenta preocupações da comunidade enquanto adota tecnologias para o seu trabalho.

➡️ A frase mantém integralmente o sentido original de “grapple with community concerns” (= lidar/enfrentar preocupações) e de “as they turn to tech” (= enquanto recorrem à tecnologia).

➡️ Há preservação da ideia de simultaneidade e ausência de juízo negativo sobre a atuação policial.

ANÁLISE DAS DEMAIS ALTERNATIVAS (COM TRADUÇÃO)

❌ A — “While turning to tech for their jobs, police dismiss community concerns.”

➡️ Tradução: Enquanto recorrem à tecnologia para o trabalho, a polícia ignora as preocupações da comunidade.

➡️ Erro: dismiss = descartar/ignorar, o que altera o sentido original.

➡️ No texto, a polícia enfrenta, não ignora, as preocupações.

❌ C — “Turning to tech for their jobs, police fail to acknowledge community concerns.”

➡️ Tradução: Ao recorrer à tecnologia para o trabalho, a polícia deixa de reconhecer as preocupações da comunidade.

➡️ Erro: introduz omissão deliberada, inexistente no texto original.

❌ D — “Police overlook community concerns while they engage with technology for their jobs.”

➡️ Tradução: A polícia ignora as preocupações da comunidade enquanto utiliza tecnologia em seu trabalho.

➡️ Erro semântico grave: overlook = ignorar, distorcendo o sentido de grapple with.

DICAS (FOCO NO QUE A QUESTÃO COBRA — PARÁFRASE / REWRITING)

➡️ Em reescrita correta, a nova frase deve preservar:

➡️ verbo nuclear (grapple with = enfrentar/lidar),

➡️ relação lógica (as = enquanto),

➡️ *ausência de acréscimos valorativos.

➡️ Substituições aceitáveis:

grapple with → contend with / deal with

as → while

PEGADINHAS DE CONCURSO

➡️ Troca sutil de verbo por outro mais forte ou negativo (dismiss, overlook, fail to acknowledge).

➡️ Alternativas que mantêm estrutura gramatical, mas alteram o sentido semântico.

➡️ Palavras aparentemente sinônimas, mas com carga avaliativa diferente.

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