LLMs for Police Accountability

There is plenty of (justified) hand wringing over AI and how it will shape the future but sometimes you just can't help but be blown away by an implementation of it. The Louisiana Law Enforcement Accountability Database (LLEAD) is a big data dump of law enforcement information from across the state of Louisiana that is being leveraged to extract evidence of wrongful convictions. This Human Rights Data Analysis breakdown discusses how they parse all of the data and use an LLM to work through it (including psuedo code).

The technical breakdown may not be for everyone but it's exciting to see these sorts of problems being worked on. Accountability for law enforcement is a huge problem and if we can use LLMs and data analysis to keep track of their behaviors, that's a win.