{"id":35511,"date":"2017-06-01T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/?p=35511"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:42:43","slug":"the-cyber-beat-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/the-cyber-beat-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cyber Beat Partner: Harnessing the Power of AI in Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_idContainer467\" class=\"Basic-Text-Frame\">\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<em><span class=\"CharOverride-91\">It\u2019s 2:00 a.m. at a small shared apartment in the city\u2019s east side when a young woman startles awake at the sudden sound of wood splintering. The woman, a recent immigrant from China, is terrified as she hears the footsteps of an intruder move closer to her bedroom door. She huddles in a corner of the room as she fumbles for her cellphone and hits the emergency call button, hoping help will come soon. The cell call is transferred to the local jurisdiction, where a pleasant, calming voice asks her the nature and location of her emergency. The woman whispers in her native Mandarin that she needs help and an intruder is in her home. The virtual dispatcher, using artificial intelligence (AI) technology, seamlessly responds by gathering information in Mandarin about the emergency, while simultaneously creating a call for service and locating the nearest available police units. The GPS caller location is verified, and the assigned police units are provided with the quickest path of travel, location, and victim history. Building maps and apartment schematics are also sent to the responding units prior to their arrival. The officers now have all of the information available to safely and quickly respond to the exigent call.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_idContainer470\" class=\"Object-Style-1 _idGenObjectStyleOverride-2\">\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-Drop-Cap-2014\"><span class=\"_idGenDropcap-5\">V<\/span>irtual dispatcher? That will never happen\u2026 or will it? The phrase \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d usually conjures up movie images of cyborgs taking over the Earth or supercomputers monitoring every human move through ever-watching surveillance systems. However, in reality, AI programs are already being integrated into so many aspects of people\u2019s lives that, eventually, few daily life transactions will not be touched by the technology\u2014including those events involving law enforcement.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ARTICLE-SUBHEAD-2014\"><span class=\"CharOverride-92\" style=\"color: #800080;\">What Is Artificial Intelligence?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">AI is the capability of machines and software programs to have \u201cintelligence\u201d or learn through experiences.<sup>1<\/sup> Other terms closely related to AI are \u201ccognitive computing,\u201d \u201csmart computers,\u201d and \u201cmachine learning.\u201d These terms are often used interchangeably in the technology arena. In simple terms, AI is the concept of creating computer platforms that resemble the infrastructure of the human brain; it creates its own algorithms and can actually learn through its own experiences.<sup>2<\/sup> The technology continually refines itself as the AI field rapidly evolves. Every day, published articles appear about the application of AI and new companies incorporating AI into their software and business practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">In the medical field, Quest Diagnostics is using IBM\u2019s Watson cognitive computing program to help locate cutting-edge treatment modalities to help save lives. The computer program, Watson for Genomics, is able to search for and assimilate 10,000 new scientific articles and 100 published clinical trial documents every month. The program compares new information to existing data and can suggest targeted treatments that can be effective for very specific genetic mutations known to cause various cancers. It is able to quickly analyze volumes of data that would take weeks for human scientists to research and digest. As a result of this AI program, Quest Diagnostics provides data to 70 percent of the oncologists in the United States currently treating patients for cancer.<sup>3<\/sup> Surgical robots with embedded AI programming and AI-assisted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnostics are also being developed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">In the consumer industry field, AI has been increasingly used for many years. Many companies aiming to improve customer service use virtual assistants, also known as \u201cchat-bots,\u201d \u201cavatars,\u201d and \u201cconcierges.\u201d The assistants are computer programs able to speak in multiple languages and help humans obtain the information and service they are looking for.<sup>4<\/sup> One example of a company employing AI for customer service successfully is the largest British telecom company, EE. The company was concerned with low customer service ratings; it found its customer service staff was giving inconsistent information, taking too long on calls, and having difficulty locating correct information due to the volume and location of product manuals. By integrating AI into its software to improve both the working and customer service environments, EE enhanced its employees\u2019 ability to improve the accuracy and speed in which they retrieved helpful information for their customers. The effect was improved customer satisfaction and quicker problem resolution.<sup>5<\/sup><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">AI is also revolutionizing the legal field. Through advances in text analytics and machine learning, legal offices are using software programs to mine through thousands of electronically stored pages to find relevant documents, a task that used to take hours of human work.<sup>6<\/sup> On average, 80 percent of a legal company\u2019s documents are stored in \u201cunstructured\u201d data or typed documents that are not part of any specific template or program. An AI-based program called Story Engine is able to sift through that unstructured data. According to Jay Lieb and Dan Roth from the head of the cognitive computing group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-DEPT-BLOCK-QUOTE-2014\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Story Engine is a program that can read through unstructured data and summarize conversations, including the ideas discussed, the frequency of the communication and the mood of the speakers. The company uses the data to build models to analyze behavior and find signs of fraud or litigation.<sup>7<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">Legal offices are also using AI-based programs to assist with the prediction of legal rulings. A software program that accesses data from all of the legal proceedings recorded for the past 70 years was able to predict the future litigation of a case with 70 percent accuracy.<sup>8<\/sup> Imagine a future where litigation was pursued, in part, depending on a computer program determining if it was worth the cost (i.e., had an analytical chance of being won). In the legal field, AI is clearly enhancing human abilities to quickly access necessary information, saving time and money, as well as improving human decision-making. There is the issue of trusting even a super-intelligent computer program with making decisions that affect lives, though, so how can this technology be trusted to assist with law enforcement?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ARTICLE-SUBHEAD-2014\"><span class=\"CharOverride-92\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Law Enforcement\u2019s Use of AI<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">For the government, the use of AI is still in its infancy. Some<br \/>\nU.S. federal branches, like that of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, use virtual assistants to help navigate through complex websites.<sup>9<\/sup>However, the most interesting and useful AI applications are still under development. IBM is working with a variety of law enforcement entities to improve AI programs\u2019 ability to ingest data in many forms and assist investigators with locating pertinent information. Confidential industry sources say that AI programs are already assisting with monitoring Internet-related terrorist activity, assisting investigations with facial recognition technology, and combing through unstructured data case files to look for patterns and inconsistencies in subject statements. One rapidly developing field is called intelligent video analytics, in which a program can assist an investigator in comparing an image to all the images available on the Internet or other stored video location, such as camera footage from public video surveillance systems.<sup>10<\/sup> For example, the program compares vehicle image data to previously stored data, quickly identifying the previous time, date, and location the same vehicle was last located on video. This is a task that would normally take a human hours and days to complete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">There are still many questions about the integration of AI into law enforcement. What happens if the profession refuses to embrace the future? If AI is already touching lives in so many ways, can law enforcement even avoid using it? Might the slower, human way of performing crime investigation become antiquated and obsolete? As technology evolves, the way law enforcement provides services must evolve too. What might law enforcement jobs look like in 10 years? There are three areas of policing that seem likely to feel AI\u2019s impact first: dispatching, field patrol, and investigations.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"ARTICLE-LEVEL-2-SUBHEAD\"><em><span class=\"CharOverride-93\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Automated Dispatch Centers<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">One possibility of AI\u2019s impact on law enforcement is the automation of law enforcement dispatch systems. With the advancement of natural language processing software coupled with cognitive computing programs, virtual dispatchers are likely to have the capability to handle high call volumes, translate multiple languages, access the many law enforcement databases at once, and electronically send the necessary information to the officer\u2019s mobile computer terminal\u2014all much quicker than a human counterpart. This concept would revolutionize the current dispatch center. A mainframe computer, with human oversight to step in should there be a malfunction, would replace some human dispatch jobs, while additional information technology (IT) jobs would likely be created to manage the automated systems and perform quality assurance call reviews. Many businesses today are using simple forms of computer call-taking programs\u2014the last time most individuals called a customer service number for a major company, they probably communicated with a computer. A 2015 Consumer Reports survey on customer service evenly scored \u201cnot being able to get a live person on the line\u201d and \u201crude or condescending comments by people\u201d as the most annoying things about customer service.<sup>11<\/sup> An AI program interface would mitigate at least one of those issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">According to Mitch Mason, an IBM natural language processing specialist,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-DEPT-BLOCK-QUOTE-2014\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>current AI programs are helping to bridge the gap between legacy chat systems and the seamless conversational interaction delivered by human call center agents. IBM advocates for augmenting existing jobs to use a hybrid of AI and human expertise to give the best experience while keeping the scalability and benefits of AI. Fantastic developments are in progress in this field which could take the language understanding and conversational capabilities of AI to the next level.<sup>12<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">This technology could transform the call-taking centers of the future from humans at computer terminals to just a computer.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"ARTICLE-LEVEL-2-SUBHEAD\"><em><span class=\"CharOverride-93\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Virtual Personal Assistants<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">Silicon Valley tech leaders such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai agrees that everyone is moving toward an \u201cAI-first\u201d world.<sup>13<\/sup> AI software programs are also likely to advance to the point of every person having a virtual personal assistant, with people simply having to ask a computer for the information they need instead of typing out keyword searches. This concept could be refined for the law enforcement officer, becoming a virtual beat partner. This \u201cvirtual cop\u201d could assist the officer with narrating call details, answering location questions, and serving as a full legal resource and reference tool in the field. Officer safety could be improved by officers\u2019 ability to have the AI narrate necessary database checks without the humans having to take their eyes off of a current suspect they have encountered out on the street. The human-computer alliance in this scenario, used to make officers, safer, smarter, and more efficient, can help ensure that law enforcement jobs continue to exist in the future.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"ARTICLE-LEVEL-2-SUBHEAD\"><em><span class=\"CharOverride-93\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Virtual Detectives<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">IBM is in the process of developing a special open-unsolved case review program for law enforcement.<sup>14<\/sup> Electronic case files can be downloaded into a program that is able to assimilate years\u2019 worth of investigative leads, and the AI program can quickly scan through all of the typed pages of narrative, looking for witness statement inconsistencies, and create a timeline of events. AI computer programs are built to ingest large amounts of data, search through the data, and come up with suggested actions or conclusions to be decided upon by humans. This relationship could be the perfect partnership for the unsolved case detective. In the transition, however, concerns exist that will need to be addressed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ARTICLE-SUBHEAD-2014\"><span class=\"CharOverride-92\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Concerns AI Will Take Over Systems<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">As AI advances, a significant amount of fear about the technology emerges; some caution comes from very credible sources. Visionaries from Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking are warning about the potential for AI to take over the world with autonomous machines that develop wills of their own.<sup>1<\/sup> Fortunately, great minds are also examining ways to prevent an AI takeover from happening. Cambridge University has gathered great minds together to examine ways to ensure that AI programs can be trusted to operate as wanted, and these creative thinkers conceived the idea that adding internal self-evaluation and calibration stages within the programs could ensure safer decision-making in unusual circumstances. This element could make the program revert back to being human driven or stop the program from performing actions that are not approved by a designated person.<sup>16<\/sup> Managing the public fear of the unknown capabilities of AI will be a significant step to implementing the widespread use of this technology. The law enforcement profession works diligently every day to mitigate risk and liability throughout its operations. The inclusion of AI technology into daily operations would not change the overarching goal of safe, effective public safety services through careful human oversight of operations.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ARTICLE-SUBHEAD-2014\"><span class=\"CharOverride-92\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Next Steps<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">AI technology has already proven to enhance human decision-making by helping people obtain the most pertinent and current information. The key point is to help people understand that this technology is meant to <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">augment<\/span><\/em> human capabilities, not <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">replace<\/span><\/em> humans. The fear of the unknown\u2014and worst case scenario of computers taking over the world\u2014is a popular fatalistic view. AI technology is already being streamlined into the businesses many people interact with and the products they use every day. With proper operational safeguards built into these AI programs and with human oversight of operations, law enforcement will undoubtedly benefit from this technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">Agencies should consider seeking out software programs with AI integration and budget for it accordingly. Companies at the forefront of AI development understand the budget constraints of local governments. They are working hard to make this technology very affordable and have so far been successful in that endeavor.<sup>17<\/sup> In the words of renowned Canadian American psychologist Nathaniel Branden, \u201cThe first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.\u201d The law enforcement profession can benefit from being aware of AI\u2019s possibilities and accepting the contribution that AI can bring to the profession. The third step in this process of change, then, is the action of incorporating AI technology into law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ARTICLE-SUBHEAD-2014\"><span class=\"CharOverride-92\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">AI is a rapidly evolving field of computer science that is being integrated into software programs to make humans better at what they do. New discoveries are being made every day, and new information is being added to the Internet, which no human can read and assimilate on a daily basis\u2014but some computers can. The AI revolution is really one of a partnership between computers and humans, gaining the best out of both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014\">Technology giants across the world are pouring billions of dollars into AI research, and companies that touch lives every day are bringing AI into their business operations to improve service. This is <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">now<\/span><\/em>, not 10 years from now. Today\u2019s AI technology is in its infancy and still being developed\u2014for example, an AI-assisted dispatch call-taking program today would be able to intake and transfer only simple non-emergency calls to different locations. Nonetheless, the future of AI holds great promise, and the law enforcement profession will benefit from understanding how AI can help agencies better serve their communities. As the rest of the world takes steps into exploring AI, law enforcement needs to be there with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014 ParaOverride-8\"><strong><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-BOLD\">Notes:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><em><sup>1<\/sup><\/em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\"><em>Merriam-Webster<\/em>, s.v.<\/span> \u201cartificial intelligence,\u201d accessed November 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>2<\/sup>Gene Rebeck, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/tcbmag.com\/Industries\/Technology\/Business-Embraces-Artificial-Intelligence\">Business Embraces Artificial Intelligence<\/a>,\u201d TwinCities Business, September 30, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>3<\/sup>Stephanie Condon, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/new-watson-powered-service-aimed-at-advancing-precision-cancer-treatments\">New Watson-Powered Service Aimed at Advancing Precision Cancer Treatments<\/a>,\u201d Between the Lines, ZD Net, October 17, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>4<\/sup>John Connors, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egain.com\/artificial-intelligence-customer-service\">Artificial Intelligence in Our Lives and in Customer Engagement<\/a>\u201d (presentation, eGain Digital + AI Day, Chicago, IL, October 11, 2016).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>5<\/sup>David Walker, \u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sDnAN_ypAU&feature=youtu.be\">VideoBites: Everything Everywhere\u2019s (EE) CX Transformation Journey,\u201d <\/a>YouTube video, March 11, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>6<\/sup>Julie Sobowale, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/how_artificial_intelligence_is_transforming_the_legal_profession\">How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Legal Profession<\/a>,\u201d <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">ABA Journal<\/span><\/em> (April 2016).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>7<\/sup>Ibid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>8<\/sup>Ibid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>9<\/sup>Meredith Somers, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsradio.com\/management\/2016\/02\/artificial-intelligence-part-of-federal-customer-service-push-into-the-digital-world\">Artificial Intelligence Part of Federal Customer Service Push into the Digital World<\/a>,\u201d <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">Federal News Radio<\/span><\/em>, February 23, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>10<\/sup>Tim Riley, (Business Unit Exective, Law Enforcement and Policing Solutions, IBM), interview with author, October 12, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>11<\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/magazine\/2015\/07\/the-problem-with-customer-service\/index.htm\">\u201cThe Problem with Customer Service,\u201d<\/a> <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">Consumer Reports<\/span><\/em>, July 29, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>12<\/sup>Mitch Mason (offering manager, Watson, IBM), interview with author, April 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>13<\/sup>Esther Kezi Harding, \u201c\u2018Siri, Are We Ready for Virtual Assistants?\u2019\u201d <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">The Media Briefing<\/span><\/em>, October 19, 2016,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themediabriefing.com\/article\/siri-are-we-ready-for-virtual-assistants\"> https:\/\/www.themediabriefing.com\/article\/siri-are-we-ready-for-virtual-assistants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>14<\/sup>Robert Fund (developer, COPLINK, IBM), interview with author, October 12, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>15<\/sup>Rory Cellan-Jones, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37713629\">Stephan Hawking\u2013Will AI Kill or Save Humankind?\u201d <\/a>BBC, October 20, 2016; Andrew Griffin, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/lifestyle\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/stephen-hawking-artificial-intelligence-could-wipe-out-humanity-when-it-gets-too-clever-as-humans-a6686496.html\">Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could Wipe Out Humanity When It Gets Too Clever as Humans Will Be Like Ants<\/a>,\u201d Indy Tech, <em><span class=\"PALATINO-NOVA-PRO-ITAL\">Independent<\/span><\/em>, October 8, 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>16<\/sup>Marianne, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcfi.ac.uk\/\">Leverhlme Centre for the Future of Intelligence,\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nUnited Kingdom Robotics and Autonomous Research, November 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-FOOTNOTE-2014\"><sup>17<\/sup>Mason, interview with author, April 2016.<\/p>\n<table id=\"table008\" class=\"Basic-Table\" style=\"background-color: #d0c1d6;\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"_idGenTableRowColumn-11\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"Basic-Table _idGenTableRowColumn-22\">\n<td class=\"Basic-Table CellOverride-25\">\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014 ParaOverride-44\"><span class=\"CharOverride-94\">This article is based on research conducted as a part of the CA POST Command College. It is a futures study of a particular emerging issue of relevance to law enforcement. Its purpose is not to predict the future; rather, to project a variety of possible scenarios useful for planning & action in anticipation of the emerging landscape facing policing organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014 ParaOverride-44\"><span class=\"CharOverride-94\">This journal article was created using the futures forecasting process of Command College and its outcomes. Managing the future means influencing it\u2014creating, constraining and adapting to emerging trends and events in a way that optimizes the opportunities and minimizes the threats of relevance to the profession. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014 ParaOverride-44\"><span class=\"CharOverride-94\">The views and conclusions expressed in the Command College Futures Project and journal article are those of the author, and are not necessarily those of the CA Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-2014 ParaOverride-44\"><em><span class=\"CharOverride-95\">\u00a9 Copyright 2017 California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Please cite as<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: .5in;\">April Wager.\u00a0“The Cyber Beat Partner: Harnessing the Power of AI in Law Enforcement,”\u00a0<i>The Police Chief<\/i> (June 2017): 40.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ARTICLE-TEXT-Drop-Cap-2014\"><span class=\"_idGenDropcap-5\">V<\/span>irtual dispatcher? That will never happen\u2026 or will it? The phrase \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d usually conjures up movie images of cyborgs taking over the Earth or supercomputers monitoring every human move through ever-watching surveillance systems. However, in reality, AI programs are already being integrated into so many aspects of people\u2019s lives that, eventually, few daily life transactions will not be touched by the technology\u2014including those events involving law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ARTICLE-SUBHEAD-2014\"><span class=\"CharOverride-92\">What Is Artificial Intelligence?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":{"post_author":"<strong><span class=\"CharOverride-61\">April Wagner, Lieutenant, Palo Alto, California, Police Department<\/span><\/strong>","main_category":"Technology","legacy_article_id":"","legacy_issue_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cyber Beat Partner: Harnessing the Power of AI in Law Enforcement - Police Chief Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/the-cyber-beat-partner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Cyber Beat Partner: Harnessing the Power of AI in Law Enforcement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Virtual dispatcher? That will never happen\u2026 or will it? The phrase \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d usually conjures up movie images of cyborgs taking over the Earth or supercomputers monitoring every human move through ever-watching surveillance systems. However, in reality, AI programs are already being integrated into so many aspects of people\u2019s lives that, eventually, few daily life transactions will not be touched by the technology\u2014including those events involving law enforcement. 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