[cbanek]

Instead of using AI to summarize body cameras, why not just release the body camera footage along with the police report? This is almost never done, usually you have to wait for discovery and the trial process to get access to the body cam footage, while the cops can and do lie/exaggerate all the time on the reports. Then you have to pay for a lawyer just to get to the data of truth, which easily costs citizens thousands of dollars. Though they don't call it lying, they call it the "officer's recollection." That's how you get things like, everyone smells like weed and/or alcohol, everyone is resisting arrest, everyone is "defiant and uncooperative." Plus, many times they will charge you extra money for the body cam footage. Trust me, all they really need to do is prevent the body cams from being turned off and/or muted, and present the body cam footage to all parties at the start, and we'd have a revolution in policing. Especially if all these police reports are drafted from incomplete body cam footage where the officer knowingly covers their camera, turns it off, or mutes it for no good reason. A lot of cops have gotten caught planting evidence from their own body cam. Same for dashcams. They should be released immediately. There is no reason not to other than to try to muscle normal citizens out of their constitutional rights.

[namaria]

Yeah I mean if the police is going to use some software tool to do the reporting, then just release the raw footage and let the courts decide what happened. As it is police officers have way too much latitude to determine what gets written down.