Forbes StaffPolice officers have begun using AI to write crime reports in Oklahoma.
Driven by the world of modern technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has been introduced for police officers to create AI-based crime reports in the US. In Oklahoma recently, a body camera captured every word and bark as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, looked out for a group of suspects for nearly an hour.
AI chatbots for creating crime reports.
Typically, an Oklahoma City police sergeant would use his laptop and spend another 35-45 minutes writing a search report. But, this time, he had AI to write his first draft. The AI tool churned out a report in a mere eight seconds, pulling from all the sounds and radio chatter picked up by the microphone attached to Gillbert’s body camera. He said, “It was a better report than I could have ever written, and it was 100% accurate. It flowed better.” He even said that it documented a fact he didn’t remember hearing – another officer’s mention of the car’s color that suspects ran from.
Oklahoma department is one of the first to experiment with AI chatbots.
One of the first departments to experiment with AI chatbots was Oklahoma City’s police department, which produced the first draft of the incident reports. All those police officers who have tried this tech are excited about it being a time-saving technology.
Rick Smith, founder and CEO of Axon, said, “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.” He called Draft One as having the “most positive reaction” of any product the company has introduced. He added, “There’s certainly concerns,” explaining that district attorneys prosecuting a criminal case want to be sure that police officers are responsible for authoring their reports and not solely AI chatbots, because officers may have to even testify in court about what they witnessed.
