The Chula Vista Police Department will soon begin using AI in their policing.

Earlier this week, the city voted to implement the AI tool in body-worn cameras to generate real-time transcriptions of police encounters and create immediate police reports while officers are still at the scenes they were called out to.

The AI tool will also do real-time language translations.

With a unanimous vote, the city council approved adding the AI tool to Chula Vista policing on Tuesday, a decision that’s raising lots of questions among the community.

“It does kind of get you thinking: 'Where are they going with this? What are they going to do with this? How is it going to be implemented? What kind of oversight is there going to be, if any?' ” said Arvy Polanco, who works in Chula Vista.

Here’s how

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