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PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Law enforcement agencies across the country are turning to AI to catch criminals and handle mundane aspects of the job, but critics argue these AI tools come with real risks.<\/p>\n

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One tool leverages an officer\u2019s body camera video to help write police reports. Scottsdale-based Axon offers a product called Draft One, which transcribes audio from body camera footage and produces a first draft of a police report.<\/p>\n

Scottsdale police started using Draft One in a pilot program last year, and they say it saves at least 30 minutes of officer time for each report.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to wait until you go back to the station to dock your camera, to upload your camera, so officers can, in their cars, go into Evidence.com, they can pull up their reports, and they can use Draft One and instantly have a draft,\u201d said Scottsdale Police Sgt. Paul Wright.<\/p>\n

Wright said freeing up staff time is especially useful when departments are facing budget pressures and struggling to recruit and retain officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps because throughout the officer\u2019s shift, they\u2019re more available to take calls for service, to be available to the public, to be community policing,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n

Critics warn that these AI-generated reports could contain consequential mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, it seems like sloppy at best, or dangerous at worst,\u201d said Dave Maass, investigations director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of Generation AI, Maass said using AI in police reports could introduce the same errors seen in schools when students use it for plagiarism or in courts where lawyers introduce citations that don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just going to start ending up in police work, ultimately resulting in bad policing, maybe even people getting off the hook because of mistakes that were made by the AI system,\u201d Maass said. \u201cBut it could also result in bias or mistakes that put innocent people in the crosshairs of an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Real-world errors<\/h2>\n

Maass cited a January case in Heber City, Utah, where the police report said an officer turned into a frog midway through responding to an incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what the AI thought happened. Somebody turned into a frog,\u201d Maass said.<\/p>\n

In reality, the AI transcription software could not distinguish between what was happening on the scene and what was happening on the television. The Disney movie The Princess and the Frog was playing in the background, and the software merged the audio narratives.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you think of every incident where there\u2019s multiple people talking, maybe in different languages, maybe using different kinds of idioms and slang, and the AI just kind of throwing that together and making up something, and an officer not checking it closely enough,\u201d Maass said. \u201cI mean, those are the kinds of problems that we expect to happen and we\u2019re already starting to see them happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Department safeguards<\/h2>\n

The Scottsdale Police Department did not immediately respond to inquiries about its use of Draft One. Still, in a report by Arizona\u2019s Family last year, a spokesperson said any report written with the AI system will include a disclaimer in the report itself. The department said it requires human verification before the report is submitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very important that we get those details right in the reports. Not just initially, but again, for courts, for records, for prosecution,\u201d Sgt. Wright said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t ChatGPT. It\u2019s not bringing in content that wasn\u2019t there in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maass questioned whether the department really is saving 30 minutes per report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you work in journalism or you work in academia or you edit publications, most editors will tell you that it often takes as long to fact-check and edit a document than it takes to write it in the first place,\u201d Maass said. \u201cSo the idea that this is somehow cutting time, what it\u2019s actually cutting time is the time from reviewing and getting the facts right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once errors are introduced into a document, it could infect the whole system, Maass argued, especially when AIs look at content generated by other AIs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t think this is a win for public safety. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a win for the officers. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a win for the public,\u201d Maass said.<\/p>\n

Maass said he could see beneficial uses for AI in law enforcement, but in much more limited capacities, such as flagging typos or automatically filling in time stamps.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when you have AI write your first draft, it is replacing your first draft,\u201d Maass said. \u201cWhen you have AI coming in and looking for typos, that still is your work at the core of it. You\u2019ve used something to help you do a better job, not use somebody to replace the job you should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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