provide examples of and discuss how less-than-lethal ammunition has revolutionized the way law enforcement deals with situations of civil disobedience and unrest. In addition, explain why there is no such thing as "non-lethal ammunition."

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One of the ways technology impacts is by making law enforcement more proactive. It casts a wider net, a crime mapping net, one that tells the police where the next crime is going to be before it happens. This is the thrust behind GIS (Geographical Information Systems) mapping.
Police cars can be dispatched to geographic areas which a computer model predicts the next crime is going to occur. While that sounds like a good thing, mistakes are inevitable in any computer model, and would you want to be a resident in the neighborhood selected for a intensive law enforcement presence? Also, the courts have yet to declare computer algorithms as sufficient grounds for things like stop and frisk or search and seizure.
There are a number of things that technological policing might do, if we are willing to peer into the future. There's the possibility of better surveillance, better lie-detection devices, and, in the court system, criminal trials by Internet videoconferencing. In corrections, rehabilitation might make a comeback, what with new drugs, brain surgeries, and biochemical breakthroughs.