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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Baxter

After Tyre Nichols’ death, can this bodycam AI make police more accountable?

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How do you make a police force accountable in the age of Tyre Nichols? One company thinks the answer lies in AI.

Truleo, a system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor audio from police officers’ bodycams and rate their interactions, is a tool that is supposed to prevent such tragedies from occurring. The tech has been getting a lot of attention since Nichols’ death, appearing everywhere from CNN to Axios. And CEO Anthony Tassone is bullish about its effectiveness, telling me on a Zoom call: “If Memphis PD had Truleo, Tyre Nichols would be alive today.”

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