When police departments first began shopping for and deploying bodycams within the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a decade in the past, activists hoped it could result in actual change.
Years later, regardless of what’s develop into a multibillion-dollar marketplace for these gadgets, the tech is way from a panacea. Most footage they generate goes unwatched. Officers usually do not use them correctly. And in the event that they do lastly present video to the general public, it often doesn’t inform the entire story.
A handful of AI startups see this drawback as a chance to create what are basically bodycam-to-text packages for various gamers within the authorized system, mining this footage for misdeeds. But just like the bodycams themselves, the expertise nonetheless faces procedural, authorized, and cultural boundaries to success. Read the total story.
—Patrick Sisson
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