🇨🇦 The RCMP Is Letting American AI Write Police Reports — And Barely Told Anyone

For over six months, the RCMP has been quietly running a pilot where audio from officers' body cameras is uploaded to Draft One — an AI tool built on an OpenAI model, sold by US-based Axon — to auto-generate police incident reports, as confirmed in a buried line inside the force's 2026–2027 Departmental Plan. The budget is $200,000. The public disclosure was an afterthought. Ten detachments across Alberta and BC are involved. Officers must change 10% of the AI draft before signing off — a threshold so low it is effectively cosmetic.

Brandon University professor Christopher Schneider, who has studied body cameras for over a decade, warns that AI hallucinations could end up as court evidence. An Utah police force already submitted a draft where the AI reported an officer had transformed into a frog — pulled from a movie playing in the background. The Electronic Frontier Foundation concluded Draft One is deliberately structured to resist public audits. Canada's national police force is outsourcing report writing to a US corporation's AI product, embedding it into the justice system, and announcing it through a departmental footnote. That is not modernization. That is negligence laundered as efficiency.

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