More data and surveillance are transforming justice systems

It is worth remembering that TV-show style suspect hunting is a rather small portion of the activity of the cops, lawyers and judges of the justice system. I'd suggest the exercise of spending a day watching an average court function. Most of the cases have no facts in question - or maybe the defendant will claim something and be immediately shown wrong. Instead, it's draconian social work for the extremely dysfunctional and those in the wrong place at the wrong time. When there are facts in question, it's usually about "how exactly do this bad thing happen" with who was there make it happen only occasionally in question.

I'd imagine the main place this increased surveillance would matter is the cat-and-mouse competition between the business of selling illegal drugs and the business of making stopping them seem like a plausible idea. How, supply and demand will likely keep the supply there but I'd assume this supply will be even more under the control of crooked cops.