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In Colorado, more officers are using artificial intelligence to write their police reports. Is that a good thing?

By In The NoCo,
Ariel Lavery, Erin O'Toole
Published October 9, 2024 at 5:40 AM MDT
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Melissa Inglis, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Oklahoma.
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Police departments in Colorado are using artificial intelligence to help write police reports. Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Melissa Inglis says this could remove bias and focus on factual information in their reports.

More law enforcement officers in Colorado are using artificial intelligence to create their police reports.

Boulder Police launched a pilot program earlier this year allowing artificial intelligence to help officers generate reports related to minor crimes. A few months later, they expanded the policy to let AI help write police reports for all types of cases. That鈥檚 according to a story from .

Boulder officers use a new technology called Draft One. Fort Collins police have also been using Draft One since April.

So how reliable is this technology? And will the police reports it generates hold up in court?

Host Erin O鈥橳oole spoke with , Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Oklahoma 鈥� who studies how law enforcement uses artificial intelligence programs 鈥� to answer those questions.

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In The NoCo
KUNC's In The NoCo is a daily slice of stories, news, people and issues. It's a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The show brings context and insight to the stories of the day, often elevating unheard voices in the process. And because life in Northern Colorado is a balance of work and play, we celebrate the lighter side of things here, too.
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Ariel Lavery
Ariel Lavery grew up in Louisville, Colorado and has returned to the Front Range after spending over 25 years moving around the country. She co-created the podcast Middle of Everywhere for WKMS, Murray State University鈥檚 NPR member station, and won Public Media Journalism awards in every season she produced for Middle of Everywhere. Her most recent series project is "The Burn Scar", published with The Modern West podcast. In it, she chronicles two years of her family鈥檚 financial and emotional struggle following the loss of her childhood home in the Marshall Fire.
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Erin O'Toole
As the host of KUNC鈥檚 new program and podcast In the NoCo, I work closely with our producers and reporters to bring context and diverse perspectives to the important issues of the day. Northern Colorado is such a diverse and growing region, brimming with history, culture, music, education, civic engagement, and amazing outdoor recreation. I love finding the stories and voices that reflect what makes NoCo such an extraordinary place to live.
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