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Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Happy or unhappy I feel like body cam footage is too important a form of evidence to have reviewed by AI

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    AI can't be the last word in what gets marked for misconduct etc., however using it as a screening tool for potentially problematic moments in a law enforcement officer's encounters would be useful. It's an enormous task to screen through those hours upon hours of video and probably prohibitively expensive for humans to work through.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Need to be certain the false negative rate is near zero though, or important events could be missed, and with AI its nearly impossible to say that with certainty.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Important events are already being missed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yep we have countless stories from all over the place of people trying to get help with crimes that got no help from the police. Over and over I've heard people describe how they were robbed and the police don't put any effort towards catching the perpetrators or returning the property. And that's far from the worst of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I mean, that's because there's usually very little evidence to go on after a robbery, unless you have security cameras.

    Most PDs don't even have the resources to process evidence from things like murders and rapes, so robbery isn't super high on their priority list.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    so we should just drop the good in pursuit of perfect?

    ai is just an additional tool to be applied based on its efficacy. the better the tooling gets, the more we can trust its results. but no one...

    no one

    is expecting ai to be perfect, and to be trusted 100%.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is this the kind of thing anyone could be happy about?

    Cops reviewing themselves, we know how that works out.

    1. Cops being reviewed by shitty AI.
    2. ???
    3. ???
    4. wtf
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