Truleo

Truleo applies natural-language processing to body-worn-camera audio to flag officer conduct — professionalism, escalation, and policy risk — across the millions of hours of footage departments record but rarely review. It highlights interruptions, profanity, use-of-force language, and unexplained camera muting so supervisors can examine interactions that would otherwise go unwatched. Founded in 2019, it is headquartered in Chicago.

The company reports typical pricing around 50 thousand dollars per year and roughly 30 police-department customers, with users and pilots including Seattle Police Department and an NYPD pilot. It was funded through an early seed round of about 2.5 million dollars plus crowdfunding.

Unusually for a policing technology, Truleo's subject is the officer, not the public — which drives its distinctive concerns. It has faced union pushback, with some departments pausing or dropping it, and automated 'professionalism' scoring encodes subjective norms while transcription and classification errors can mislabel interactions. Independent validation of its accuracy remains limited.