Valuetainment - April 11, 2026


“AI STOPS Crimes BEFORE They Start” - Grady Judd Reveals INSANE Crime-Fighting Tech


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8 minutes

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1,524

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88


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In this episode, I sit down with the Director of the Polk County Sheriff's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Florida to talk about how law enforcement agencies across the country are using artificial intelligence (AI) to fight crime and keep the community safe.

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00:00:00.000 AI is changing in a lot of different industries.
00:00:02.080 We're seeing all these disruptions in different industries.
00:00:04.000 How are you using AI today?
00:00:05.780 I've got, I created, and I say I created, I directed,
00:00:10.280 I've got really brilliant people that work with me.
00:00:13.760 I asked about a year and a half ago
00:00:17.620 to create a Sheriff's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory cell.
00:00:23.140 We partnered with a Polytech.
00:00:25.180 And so the Polytech sends us their best and brightest students as capstone courses for them to work with us on AI projects.
00:00:38.220 I'm pretty excited.
00:00:39.800 The first year, which was last year, there were three awards given out by the Polytech for incredible projects.
00:00:49.060 Two students that worked with us won two awards.
00:00:53.980 The third award was won by a student that was working with NASA.
00:00:58.440 So we were in pretty good two out of four.
00:01:01.300 Two out of three.
00:01:02.220 Two out of three is yours.
00:01:03.260 And the third one was NASA.
00:01:05.860 So the two are in Polk County.
00:01:07.900 All three of the students were at the Polytech in the county.
00:01:12.220 Two of them are yours.
00:01:13.020 One of them is from NASA.
00:01:14.760 One of them worked with NASA.
00:01:17.500 But it's called the Sheriff's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
00:01:20.380 We've got to figure out how to have tools to protect the community from bad AI.
00:01:28.160 We've also got to figure out how to use AI to keep the community safe.
00:01:33.860 And we've got to do it without bias being blended in.
00:01:39.140 And that is where we are.
00:01:42.160 So at the end of the day, we are so excited.
00:01:45.520 Now, we're working on, right now, I've got them working on, among other things, what I call an artificial intelligence hub.
00:01:55.680 We started out working on law enforcement applications and operations, and now I've had them spider it out.
00:02:02.140 And they are working on an org chart right now in the system and a process for me so that we so the artificial intelligence hub will contain the cell unit that shares artificial intelligence laboratory.
00:02:16.940 And we are working not only to create artificial or using for artificial intelligence and create programs, but to also go out and search because it's easier to use that which is already developed.
00:02:30.180 That is going to be the tool in the future that keeps us safe, that allows us to fly in autonomous vehicles, that allows us to ride in autonomous vehicles, but it's also going to be a tool that the criminals use against the community, and that's what we're working on now.
00:02:51.860 Now, I've checked across the state and nation, and I know you're a worldwide broadcast.
00:02:57.640 If somebody can show me another police agency, local police agency that's doing this any place in the United States,
00:03:04.380 I want to know so we can also partner with them.
00:03:07.140 But I think I've got the only sale unit in the United States right now.
00:03:12.600 Yeah, well, I mean, you're not hard to get a hold of.
00:03:15.120 If somebody's watching, they can send a message to you to find out if there is any.
00:03:19.100 But that's great to hear.
00:03:19.820 By the way, are you seeing this?
00:03:21.600 I saw a stat that Rob will show me earlier that this RoboCop, not just RoboCop, but, you know,
00:03:28.460 $11.7 billion industry per year for law enforcement on what they're buying and what they're using.
00:03:33.740 I saw something the other day about a scarecrow, Rob.
00:03:36.460 You may have showed it to me like literally maybe this morning or this afternoon.
00:03:40.260 Is this the one?
00:03:40.700 Yeah, this right here.
00:03:41.400 Can you go up a little bit?
00:03:42.580 Ominous surveillance scarecrow is appearing across America.
00:03:45.260 This is March 28th, literally four or five days ago of this story coming out.
00:03:49.180 we stop crimes before they start if you want to go a little bit lower and it explains how police
00:03:54.300 technology is a major business in the u.s all together the law enforcement equipment market
00:03:57.640 was valued at around 11.7 billion in 2025 and as dystopian toys like self-driving squad cars
00:04:04.800 and crime-fighting drone hives make it to the market that number is set to skyrocket how much
00:04:10.860 are you guys spending thinking about doing some of these things like that's a camera on wheels
00:04:15.120 going around catching people committing crimes.
00:04:17.640 Do you think this is a good idea?
00:04:19.260 Do you think it's a bad idea?
00:04:20.360 Do you think you kind of have to use this technology?
00:04:22.620 How do you process this?
00:04:23.780 I'm a big privacy wonk.
00:04:26.540 I don't think we should be in anybody's space that's private.
00:04:30.080 But I can tell you that we use drones on police responses today.
00:04:36.760 I've probably got 40 drones.
00:04:39.560 Now, they don't fly around the community and look in your backyard,
00:04:42.940 But if you call and say, I've got a burglar, we immediately send a patrol team.
00:04:50.820 We immediately send a canine team.
00:04:53.320 We immediately send a drone team.
00:04:55.900 And we immediately send a helicopter because we're going to catch that person.
00:04:59.960 What does the drone team do?
00:05:01.180 And how many drones do you send?
00:05:02.500 Well, we have about 40 drones assigned 24-7.
00:05:07.640 But we send the drone team.
00:05:09.560 and what they do is they're an aerial platform so we can look at wherever the perimeter of the
00:05:18.140 crime scene is to see if we can find somebody running, somebody hiding, somebody behind a
00:05:24.220 building with a gun that could ambush us. So we use that drone capability now. But it's line of
00:05:31.480 site there will come a day where instead of having to mobily drive that drone to the area
00:05:39.740 that will operate that drone from an intelligence center so we'll launch that drone to emergencies
00:05:46.440 and when and we'll be we it's not just line of sight we'll be able to fly that drone for initial
00:05:53.920 response and many times get there before the patrol car does and say hey look that suspicious
00:05:59.840 this person he's selling ice cream you know you don't need a patrol response for that there will
00:06:06.120 also come a day when our communication centers or ai when they're sophisticated enough where they
00:06:13.160 can answer your call they can direct the emergency response whether it's police fire ems and then
00:06:20.300 then they will tell the responding units here i don't care that it says it's zoned for this unit
00:06:27.120 This unit over here has finished their last job, and they're closer.
00:06:31.440 So we're going to see economies of scale.
00:06:35.700 We're going to see a faster response, a better response, a more complete response.
00:06:41.640 And technology is why we're catching bad guys today.
00:06:46.580 And we're doing it all in public space.
00:06:49.000 We're not in anybody's private space doing that, nor would I ever support that.
00:06:53.960 So if there's such a crime scene, how many drones?
00:06:56.820 I know you've got 40 of them, but how many do you send to one?
00:06:58.880 Because you can't send all of them in case something else happens, right?
00:07:01.180 You need someone.
00:07:02.400 Normally you send one and a backup because of battery.
00:07:07.200 That's one thing that we've not been able to conquer yet
00:07:13.080 is how to get a really long-lasting battery.
00:07:17.380 so what we'll do is if if if it's a what i call a simple response it may only have one
00:07:24.820 but if we see we're going to be launched and busy for a while we'll send a minimum of two
00:07:30.940 and sometimes we will send three i we had for example and this has been gosh three or four
00:07:38.160 years ago we had a hostage situation where we landed the drone just outside the front door
00:07:45.560 and used the camera to look up in the house, and this went on for hours.
00:07:50.780 But because we were only using the camera and not the motors,
00:07:54.700 we were able to, I believe there was only one drone operator there.
00:08:01.040 But what we're seeing is it's keeping law enforcement officers safe,
00:08:05.980 and it's saving lives.
00:08:06.880 Has a bad guy ever shot it down?
00:08:08.720 Not yet.
00:08:09.300 Not yet.
00:08:09.900 Not yet.
00:08:10.320 Okay, well, listen, I'm assuming every single time you come with a new story,
00:08:13.020 something could happen.
00:08:13.800 We can be surprised.
00:08:14.820 When they do, I'll be back to talk about it.
00:08:16.800 Okay, sounds good.
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