Session 2: Leveraging Technology to Improve Police-Community Relations

Police body-worn cameras have been at the center of police reform efforts over the past decade. Yet the vast majority of the footage generated by those cameras is never examined, undermining the camera’s utility as a tool for accountability and improving interactions between the police and community members. In this talk, researchers explain how they are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to unlock the research potential of body-worn camera footage to better understand the nature of law enforcement’s encounters with the public. In turn, leveraging the resulting insights could fuel both the development and systematic evaluation of officer trainings and other institutional interventions designed to improve policing. Learn more about other research supported by the Hoffman-Yee Research Grant program here: https://hai.stanford.edu/research/grant-programs/hoffman-yee-research-grants?section=2024-grant-recipients