Body-worn camera analytics can track officer-public interaction behavior and flag burnout, enabling well checks and sabbaticals at career milestones to protect officer mental health and job performance.
Colonel Glover describes how his agency uses AI analytics behind body-worn cameras to score officer-public interactions and detect burnout, leading to instituted well checks and sabbaticals at the 15- and 25-year marks. ✦ AI generated
Colonel Glover · a16z Podcast · 2026-05-18 · original ↗
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“Colonel Glover, talk about some of the other technologies and capabilities that you've been able to deploy that really changes the equation for law enforcement.”
We started instituting well checks and uh sabbaticals for those that are at the 15 and 25-year mark to be able to help help optimize their performance so that way when they go out in the field, they feel good about what they're doing and they have job satisfaction.
verbatim transcript · starts at 4:43
4:24that uh feeling of, you know, I have a little bit of a layer of protection um because with this it's going to flag for the burnout as well. Uh and that was one of the things at the associations in speaking with them about this is was that from the advent of the our body worn camera and being able to take that technology, run those analytics behind it, be able to check
4:43for those that had burnout um where if we need to pull them from the field, if we need to do something a little bit different, um we started instituting well checks and uh sabbaticals for those that are at the 15 and 25-year mark to be able to help help optimize their performance so that way when they go out in the field, they feel good about what they're doing and they have job
5:04satisfaction. Absolutely. It's been amazing uh to see that the public sentiment shift over things like body cams. You know, at first people were very against body cams. Uh even some of the officer unions were against body cams and they realized, "Wait a minute. You see all the dumb things that uh that the criminals do." Uh so that's pretty good. It it protects our officers. Um but it
5:25also provides you game tape. Gives you footage. It could be coaching, mental health services, make sure that somebody uh who needs a break gets a break. And uh really incredible technology. I remember the same discussion happened with tasers. So we see this over and over again with technology that we sort of have to go through a hype cycle of of uh of reaction. Uh Uh, but it's great to
5:45see those things being being deployed. Do you want to talk a little bit real quickly, uh, about the intelligence gathering apparatus? I think that, uh, you know, you've mentioned it a couple times that we, you know, we shifted law enforcement to really making sure that we have all the information we need. Talk about it, the Department of Public Safety, uh, how you're how you're working to really make sure that
6:06officers have, uh, the best information available. Yeah, so one of the things that we're leaning into is well as is that we have the Arizona Counterterrorism and Center, the TIC. Um, so with fusion centers, the fusion centers around the the US are are collaborating and and working together in tandem to make sure that they're sharing information. Um, you have the, uh, TRX program which a lot of us are doing for FIFA right now
6:30because that's the that's the the big event that's coming up as well as the Olympics. Um, but one of the things in Arizona that I'm doing is I'm leaning heavily into be making sure that we're having sort of an international presence as well. So we have a lot of partnerships, um, with different groups, especially, you know, of course we are a border state, so we have the state of