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“AI STOPS Crimes BEFORE They Start” - Grady Judd Reveals INSANE Crime-Fighting Tech
11 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What role does AI play in transforming law enforcement?
AI is changing in a lot of different industries. We're seeing all these disruptions in different industries.
How are you using AI today? I've got, I created, and I say I created, I directed, I've got really brilliant people that work with me. I asked about a year and a half ago to create a sheriff's artificial intelligence laboratory cell. we partnered with a Polytech. And so the Polytech sends us their best and brightest students as capstone courses for them to work with us on AI projects.
I'm pretty excited. The first year, which was last year, There were three awards given out by the Polytech for incredible projects. Two students that worked with us won two awards. The third award was won by a student that was working with NASA. So we were in pretty good. Two out of four?
Chapter 2: How is the Sheriff's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory structured?
Two out of three. Two out of three is yours. And the third one was NASA. So the two are in Polk County. All three of the students were at the Polytech in the county. Two of them are yours. One of them is from NASA. One of them worked with NASA. But it's called the Sheriff's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. We've got to figure out how to have tools to protect the community from bad AI.
We've also got to figure out how to use AI to keep the community safe. And we've got to do it without bias being blended in. And that is where we are. So at the end of the day, we are so excited. Now, we're working on right now I've got them working on, among other things, what I call an artificial intelligence hub.
We started out working on law enforcement applications and operations, and now I've had them spider it out, and they are working on an org chart right now and a system and a process for me so that we, so the artificial intelligence hub will contain the cell unit, the Sheriff's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
And we are working not only to create artificial or using artificial intelligence and create programs, but to also go out and search because it's easier to use that which is already developed. 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. Now, I've checked across the state and nation, and I know you're a worldwide broadcast. If somebody can show me
Another police agency, local police agency that's doing this, any place in the United States, I want to know so we can also partner with them.
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Chapter 3: What innovative projects have been developed through the AI lab?
But I think I've got the only cell unit in the United States right now.
Yeah, well, I mean, you're not hard to get a hold of if somebody's watching so they can send a message to you to find out. If there is any. But that's great to hear that. By the way, are you seeing this? I saw a stat that Rob was showing me earlier that this RoboCop, not just RoboCop, but, you know, $11.7 billion industry per year for law enforcement on what they're buying and what they're using.
I saw something the other day about a scarecrow. Rob, you may have showed it to me like literally. Maybe this morning or this afternoon. Is this the one? Yeah, this right here. Can you go up a little bit? Ominous surveillance scarecrows appearing across America. This is March 28th, literally four or five days ago, of this story coming out.
We stop crimes before they start, if you want to go a little bit lower. And it explains how police technology is a major business in the U.S. altogether. The law enforcement equipment market was valued at $11.7 billion in 2025. And as dystopian toys... Like self-driving squad cars and crime-fighting drone hives make it to the market, that number is set to skyrocket.
How much are you guys spending thinking about doing some of these things? Like that's a camera on wheels going around catching people committing crimes. Do you think this is a good idea? Do you think it's a bad idea? Do you think you kind of have to use this technology? How do you process this?
I'm a big privacy wonk. I don't think we should be in anybody's space that's private. But I can tell you that we use drones on police responses today. I've probably got 40 drones. Now, they don't fly around the community and look in your backyard, but if you call and say, I've got a burglar, We immediately send a patrol team. We immediately send a canine team.
We immediately send a drone team, and we immediately send a helicopter because we're going to catch that person.
What does the drone team do, and how many drones do you send?
Well, we have about 40 drones assigned 24-7. But we send the drone team, and what they do is they're an aerial platform so we can look at wherever the perimeter of the crime scene is to see if we can find somebody running, somebody hiding, somebody behind a building with a gun that could ambush us. So we use that drone capability now. But it's line of sight.
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Chapter 4: How does AI help in protecting the community from crime?
And then they will tell the responding units, here, I don't care that it says it's zoned for this unit. This unit over here has finished their last job and they're closer. So we're going to see economies of scale. We're going to see a faster response, a better response, a more complete response. And technology is why we're catching bad guys today. And we're doing it all in public space.
We're not in anybody's private space doing that, nor would I ever support that.
So if there's such a crime scene, how many drones – I know you've got 40 of them, but how many do you send to one? Because you can't send all of them in case something else happens, right? You need someone –
Normally, you send one and a backup because of battery. That's one thing that we've not been able to conquer yet is how to get a really long-lasting battery. So what we'll do is if it's what I call a simple response, it may only have one. But if we see we're going to be launched and busy for a while, we'll send a minimum of two. And sometimes we will send three.
We had, for example, and this has been, gosh, three or four years ago, we had a hostage situation where we landed the drone, just outside the front door and used the camera to look up in the house. And this went on for hours. But because we were only using the camera and not the motors, we were able to, I believe there was only one drone operator there.
But what we're seeing is it's keeping law enforcement officers safe. And it's saving lives. Has a bad guy ever shot it down? Not yet.
Not yet. Not yet. Okay, well, listen, I'm assuming every single time you come with a new story, something could happen. We can't be surprised. When they do, I'll be back to talk about it. Okay, sounds good. You know, this whole thing with Viettelman and Peabody Podcast started with a phone, me, and Mario. That's it. And it grew today to 15 million subscribers almost and 164 full-time employees.
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Chapter 5: What technologies are being implemented for crime prevention?
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