Investigation
AI writes the police report
2024Axon's Draft One generates police narratives from body-cam audio with an LLM. Civil-liberties groups warn it launders unreliable AI text into sworn legal records.
Body & Vehicle Cameras
Axon Enterprise
Formerly TASER International
Axon dominates the US body-camera market and runs Axon Evidence (evidence.com), the cloud where much of American policing stores its footage. It has expanded into real-time crime centers (Fusus), drones (Axon Air), AI that drafts police reports from body-cam audio (Draft One), and streetlight-mounted ALPR cameras (Lightpost). In February 2026 it closed a $625 million acquisition of Carbyne, the cloud 911 call-handling platform, extending its reach from the body camera to the 911 call itself.
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Investigation
AI ethics board resigns over Taser drones
2022After Axon announced a Taser-equipped drone concept following mass shootings, a majority of its independent AI ethics board resigned in protest.
Investigation
Trump's account bought Axon stock before ICE's $220M Taser deal
2026A federal financial-disclosure filing revealed an account in Donald Trump's name bought $1–5 million of Axon stock on February 10, 2026 — about two weeks before ICE sought roughly 17,800 Tasers in a ~$220 million solicitation. Ethics watchdogs flagged the timing; the trade was in a discretionary account managed by others, and there is no allegation that Trump directed it or knew of the coming ICE deal.
Further reading
- ↳Atlas of Surveillance — EFF, 2025 ↗
- ↳Axon Enterprise annual report (10-K) — SEC, 2024