The book analyses the 2026 Policing White Paper directly against the EU AI Act's rights-based framework, not as an abstract comparison, but because the two approaches answer the same set of questions completely differently. Such questions include; Where does historical policing data quietly reproduce old patterns of unequal enforcement? How does a force build explainability and the right to contest a decision into a system from the start? Is the system transparent, meaning can a vendor demonstrate how a model actually arrives at its conclusions?