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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ProPublica: Over the last decade, police departments across the U.S. have spent millions of dollars equipping their officers with body-worn cameras that record what happens as they go about their work. Everything from traffic stops to welfare checks to respon...

Los Angeles spends millions on body cameras to help provide transparency and accountability, but most of the footage never gets seen. Now department leaders are wondering if artificial intelligence can help solve the issue.

In the wake of a gang unit scandal and concerns about officers misconduct, LAPD leaders are considering whether to use artificial intelligence to analyze vast troves of officer body-cam footage.

In the wake of a gang unit scandal and concerns about officers misconduct, LAPD leaders are considering whether to use artificial intelligence to analyze vast troves of officer body-cam footage.

Polis Solutions and Change Integration were hired by the city earlier this year to help with the process of fixing the CPCC, which many community members said was broken, and political leaders vowed to fix it in the wake of civil unrest that stemmed from Georg Floyd’s murder in May 2020.

Long Beach is expected to finalize a contract in May with a Seattle-based firm that will be tasked with analyzing the city’s Citizens Police Complaint Commission and submitting conclusions on how it can be improved. The report is expected to be finished by the end of the year. - ADVERTISEMENT - The CPCC makes recommendations on how to handle hundreds of cases of alleged officer misconduct annually, but the process of evaluating those accusations has been shrouded in secrecy since the commissi...