{"id":44615,"date":"2026-01-13T06:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ai-app-causes-distress-across-us-with-false-crime-alerts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:17:31","slug":"ai-app-causes-distress-across-us-with-false-crime-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ai-app-causes-distress-across-us-with-false-crime-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"AI app causes distress across US with false crime alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A company behind an AI-powered app called CrimeRadar has apologised for the distress caused by false crime alerts issued to local US communities after a BBC Verify investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">CrimeRadar uses artificial intelligence to monitor openly available police radio communications, automatically generating a transcript and then producing crime alerts for users across the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC Verify has found multiple instances from Florida to Oregon of CrimeRadar sending misleading and inaccurate alerts about serious crime to local residents &#8211; as Thomas Copeland explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"produced-by-aisha-sembhi.-graphics-by-mark-edwards-and-mesut-ersoz.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mark Edwards and Mesut Ersoz.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c4g4v3yd28yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company behind an AI-powered app called CrimeRadar has apologised for the distress caused by false crime alerts issued to local US communities after a BBC Verify investigation. CrimeRadar uses artificial intelligence to monitor openly available police radio communications, automatically generating a transcript and then producing crime alerts for users across the US. BBC Verify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[904,1596,1920,8195,1318],"class_list":["post-44615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-alerts","tag-app","tag-crime","tag-distress","tag-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44617,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44615\/revisions\/44617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}