AI and Policing: 2024 in Review

Notes

EFF Deeplinks blog post. Prior for blog is 0.35; bumped to 0.55 because EFF is a long-running civil-liberties org with subject-matter expertise in police surveillance tech and the post is descriptive rather than speculative.

Evidence from this source (4)

• CDAxon's AI police-report product generates narrative reports from body-worn-came… support
  weight

  0.75

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph describing Axon product

  “In the case of Axon, this is done by using the audio from police body-worn cameras to create narrative reports with minimal officer input except for a prompt to add a few details here and there.”

• CDA market for AI-generated police reports emerged in 2024, with vendors includin… support
  weight

  0.75

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph beginning 'Egged on by companies like Truleo and Axon'

  “Egged on by companies like Truleo and Axon, there is a rapidly-growing market for vendors that use a large language model to write police reports for officers.”

• CDProsecutors in Washington state asked police not to use AI to write police repo… support
  weight

  0.80

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph beginning 'Prosecutors in Washington'

  “Prosecutors in Washington have even asked police not to use AI to write police reports (for now) out of fear that errors might jeopardize trials.”

• CDAI-generated police reports create a plausible-deniability vector: when cross-e… support
  weight

  0.65

  method: expert_estimate · locator: body, paragraph on cross-examination and hallucinations

  “when cross examination reveals lies in a police report, officers will now have the veneer of plausible deniability by saying, 'the AI wrote that part.'”