Industrial Study Reports How Analysts Actually Use AI in High-Stakes Crime Linkage

arXiv·low signal

Crime linkage analysts manually search large databases for behavioral and situational connections across offences — slow, cognitively demanding work involving repeated exposure to disturbing material. This industrial study examines a co-developed AI decision-support tool built with a UK law enforcement agency, giving rare field evidence on how experts actually use (and defer to) AI in a high-stakes domain. Adds real deployment data to the ongoing debate about human-AI decision division of labor.