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((PLAYBOOK SLUG: LOGON: POLICE BODY CAM AI
HEADLINE: LogOn: Police Recruit AI to Analyze Police Body-Camera Footage
TEASER: Using AI to analyze footage from police body cameras may help flag some officers’ behavior, highlight others who are doing well
PUBLISHED AT: 8/8/23, 10:27p
BYLINE: Shelley Schlender
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: AURORA, Colo.
VIDEOGRAPHER: Shelley Schlender
PRODUCER: Shelley Schlender
SCRIPT EDITORS: Michelle Quinn, Page
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VIDEO SOURCE (S): YouTube.com/@Truleo, Vimeo.com/CityofMemphis, YouTube.com/@TheAurora Police, Zoom, VOA, Storyblocks
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO _X_
TRT: 1:53
VID APPROVED BY: Reifenrath
TYPE: TVPKG
((INTRO)) [[U.S. police reform advocates have long argued that police-worn body cameras will help reduce officers’ excessive use of force and work to build public trust. But the millions of hours of footage that so-called “body cams” generate are difficult for police supervisors to monitor. As Shelley Schlender explains, artificial intelligence may help.]]
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Body cameras worn by Memphis police captured how a traffic stop turned deadly.
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Five police officers face charges in relation to the death of Tyre ((Tie-REE)) Nichols.
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Reviews of the officers’ body camera footage will certainly be part of the criminal proceedings.
(Courtesy: YouTube/@Truleo))
Body camera footage rarely gets reviewed,
…says Anthony Tassone ((tass-O-nay)),
((Courtesy: YouTube/@Truleo))
CEO of Truleo, an artificial intelligence firm.
[[FOR RADIO: … speaking to VOA on Zoom.]]
((Anthony Tassone, Truleo CEO)) ((Courtesy: Zoom))
“To me, watching the video and talking to my law enforcement colleagues and friends, that’s not the first time those officers have used that type of language or been in that type of situation.”
((NARRATOR)) ((Courtesy: YouTube.com/@Truleo))
Tassone says his AI software for police body cameras will help police supervisors intervene earlier, ((end credit))
like how supervisors in other industries monitor their employees’ customer interactions. Like calling a bank.
((Anthony Tassone, Truleo CEO)) ((Courtesy: Zoom))
“So this idea of transcribing and analyzing employees to improve customer service, this has been around for a long time.”
((Courtesy: YouTube.com/@Truleo))
((NARRATOR))
Truleo’s artificial intelligence system gives high ratings when police use formalities such as “ma’am,” “thank you” and explain what they are doing. Truleo flags when an officer uses insults, threats or profanity.
((NARRATOR))
In Colorado, Aurora Police Chief Art Acevedo recently started…
((Courtesy: YouTube.com/@Truleo))
…a one-year trial of Truleo AI. The goal: Celebrate good policing while correcting potentially negative behavior.
((Art Acevedo, Aurora Police Chief))
“We'll be looking for those bad habits, those good habits, and presenting them to our officers so they can learn from them, be better.”
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The American Civil Liberties Union cautions that governments need to protect the rights of groups …
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…that might be affected by AI analysis of police body cam footage.
((Anaya Robinson, ACLU Colorado))
“We have to know exactly how they're using them, exactly how they are regulated, and exactly what they are not allowed to do with them.”
(((Courtesy: YouTube.com/@TheAurora Police))
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That kind of review should be in place, he said, before police forces widely adopt the technology.
((Shelley Schlender, for VOA News, Aurora, Colorado.))
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