AI Police Reports: Year in Review

Posted by hn_acker 12/23/2025

AI Police Reports: Year in Review(www.eff.org)

192 points | 207 commentspage 2

lubujackson 12/27/2025|

The solution is to remove the temptation to hit a "looks good" button. A non-shitty AI tool could return a bullet list of events and time stamps:

- officer said "Freeze!" at 3:12:34am - "my arm!" said person #2 at 3:12:48am

Then the office must at a minimum reformat the events into text and add their own details. Again, AI is a tool and it is immensely useful if we treat it like a tool and not a panacea.

benatkin 12/27/2025||

The experiments of AI agents sending emails to grown-ups are good I think – AIs are doing much more dangerous stuff like these AI Police Reports. I don't think making a fuss over every agent-sent email is going to cause other AI incursion into our society to slow down. The Police Report writer is a non-human partially autonomous participant like a K9 officer. It's wishful thinking that AIs aren't going to be set loose doing jobs. The cat is out of the bag.

dannersy 12/27/2025|

I'm curious about this claim. What about agents sending emails to each other is good?

benatkin 12/28/2025||

Turing test type stuff. Having agents try to participate in the overall social community, by sending a cold email. The reason I think it's good is because with how AI is increasingly used a lot of different sorts of research is needed. A citizen could have their police report written by an AI without them opting in, just like Rob Pike could get a cold email.

dannersy 1/1/2026||

You think predictive models are good for where objectivity is consequential? Like it would be in a police report?

bushbaba 12/27/2025||

To me it’s a question of it they are on average better. It’s not like human based input is perfect either.

sejje 12/27/2025|

Do mistakes by the LLM carry the same weight as mistakes by the officer? Can the case be thrown out for an LLM mistake?

Does the officer face repercussions for introducing false information via this tool?

Rosleyrodrigues 1/4/2026||

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maximgeorge 12/27/2025||

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throw-12-16 12/27/2025|

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hackyhacky 12/27/2025|

> You guys are so fucked.

"You guys"? Everyone is fucked. This is going to be everywhere. Coming to your neighborhood, eventually.

Zaphoos 12/27/2025|||

Not everyone lives in a 3rd world authoritarian backwater, its time to stop that ridiculous US-centrism

hackyhacky 12/28/2025||

Sure, not everyone. Just the US, the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Netherlands, Chile, Argentina, or Honduras. I'm sure it will pass.

It's not US-centrism. It's just an acknowledgement of the recent trend.

throw-12-16 12/27/2025|||

I dont live in a police state.

parineum 12/27/2025|||

You either don't have police reports or some amount of your country's police reports aee written by AI.

I'd be more worried that you aren't reading articles about it than if you were.

throw-12-16 12/27/2025||

Considering that AI can barely write in my native language I am not worried.

There are countries on this planet that are not actively digging their own graves.

jondwillis 12/27/2025||

Cmon tell us, Mr. Rammstein’s throwaway, which much-superior country is it?!

nrhrjrjrjtntbt 12/27/2025|||

He wont tell you. If he did he would have to admit he lives in a police state or martial law.

throw-12-16 12/27/2025||

Misery loves company

throw-12-16 12/27/2025|||

a/s/l?

fouc 12/27/2025|||

I guess that means you don't live in the US, or in the UK, or in Australia.

throw-12-16 12/27/2025|||

Correct

hackyhacky 12/28/2025|||

Don't forget about France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Netherlands, Chile, Argentina, or Honduras. Right-wing authoritarianism is not limited to the anglosphere.

fouc 12/31/2025||

Haha yeah I didn't want to get into an exhaustive list