On any given day, Los Angeles police officers record roughly 8,000 interactions with the public on body-worn cameras. Most of the footage goes unseen.The city spent millions on the cameras to help provide transparency and accountability, but Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officials say they don’t have enough personnel to monitor the countless hours of recordings. In the aftermath of the Mission scandal, LAPD leaders have been eyeing a potential solution: artificial intelligence, which can analyze vast troves of body camera footage with a few keystrokes. They know right now nobody is watching their body camera videos.”Departments can use the resulting analyses to train officers on how to navigate potentially fraught encounters without resorting to force, he said.The technology has met resistance in some places. Commission President Erroll Southers said he was worried to learn that the department’s review of gang stops relied on a relatively small sample size.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 21, 2023 23:34 UTC