"AI's first wave in policing was about the streets: drones, license plate readers, gunshot detection and tools that promise faster response and more "eyes" on the city. Now comes the second wave: AI for detective work that involves combing through jail calls, interviews, social media "warrant returns," photos and old case files to surface relevant moments faster. Zoom in: AI startups Closure andLongeye are two firms offering law enforcement agencies new tools to search mountains of evidence often overlooked by overworked detectives and forensic investigators."
"How it works: Investigators upload or pull in large datasets, such as jail calls, interviews, and photos, into a single workspace so they can be searched as a single corpus. The systems transcribe audio, label images and highlight crucial text messages so detectives can move from hours of listening and reading to quick searches and retrievals. The AI software can analyze evidence across many foreign and Indigenous languages and translate so that monolingual investigators can search for clues and confessions."
"The Anchorage Police Department in Alaska adopted the Closure tool after a test period, with the Anchorage Assembly approving a five-year, $375,000 contract. The Redmond Police Department in Washington State and the Wyomissing Police Department in Pennsylvania are now using the Longeye AI tool to accelerate cold case and active case investigations. The agencies say the tools have allowed investigations to process hours of recorded messages and interviews in a matter of minutes - and helped advance cases."
AI is shifting from street-level surveillance to detective-level analysis that searches jail calls, interviews, social media, photos, and old case files. Startups like Closure and Longeye supply unified workspaces that ingest large datasets so investigators can search a single corpus. The systems transcribe audio, label images, highlight text messages, and translate many foreign and Indigenous languages, enabling monolingual detectives to find clues and confessions. Agencies in Anchorage, Redmond, and Wyomissing report that these tools compress hours of listening and reading into minutes, help restart cold-case and missing-person probes, and accelerate active and cold case investigations.
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