OAN Staff Blake Wolf
10:42 AM – Monday, August 26, 2024
Police are now integrating artificial intelligence within their police reports to speed up the process from 30-45 minutes, to around 8 seconds.
Axon, the company that produces police body cameras and tasers, has now begun to pitch AI designed to write police reports in seconds.
“It was a better report than I could have ever written, and it was 100% accurate. It flowed better,” stated Oklahoma City police sergeant Matt Gilmore.
Oklahoma City’s police department is one of the few to test the cutting edge technology, which Gilbert describes as a “game changer.”
“They become police officers because they want to do police work, and spending half their day doing data entry is just a tedious part of the job that they hate,” stated Axon’s founder and CEO Rick Smith.
Smith also stated, “there’s certainly concerns,” regarding the product as introducing a new author in a critical legal court document could shift the responsibility away from police officers.
Law professor at American University, Andrew Ferguson, stated “I am concerned that automation and the ease of the technology would cause police officers to be sort of less careful with their writing.”
“They never want to get an officer on the stand who says, well ‘The AI wrote that, I didn’t,’” Smith continued.
Skeptics of the new technology are concerned with a built in racial bias as well as how the AI generated reports will hold up in court cases.
“The fact that the technology is being used by the same company that provides Tasers to the department is alarming enough,” stated Francisco, co-founder of the Foundation for Liberating Minds in Oklahoma City.
Francisco goes on to state the AI reports will “ease the police’s ability to harass, surveil and inflict violence on community members. While making the cop’s job easier, it makes Black and Brown people’s lives harder.”
Oklahoma City’s police department is cautiously integrating the technology, only using it for minor incident reports which don’t lead to arrests.
Lafayette, Indiana’s police department and Fort Collins, Colorado, are fully integrating the technology on “any kind of case.”
Officers who have utilized the technology are becoming more verbal and are essentially narrating what is happening, so the AI can easily translate the officers’ recounting of events into the report.
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