Spokane County Sheriff’s Office plans to use AI to screen bodycam footage and enhance police training | News [Video]

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is exploring new ways to analyze the hundreds of hours of body cam footage taken each day.

Right now, body cams record everything from traffic stops to standoffs across the county. Screening all that video would typically take hundreds of man hours.

Soon, all that footage will be screened instead by artificial intelligence.

The Sheriff’s Office has been using its current body cameras for around three years. It says the hope is that this AI software will help improve the services deputies provide even more.

“It can make a really big impact on professional policing,” said Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels.

Right now, the Sheriff’s Office says it has little data on how the agency’s training programs affect real-world outcomes.

“This AI software is a way to start putting empirical data into that,” Nowels said.

Thanks to nearly $1 million federal …