Reconero launches AI tool that drafts police reports and reviews bodycam footage

A police officer finishes a shift with 30 to 40 minutes of bodycam video from one stop. The paperwork for that stop repeats the same facts on three or four forms. Reconero wants an agent to watch the video, write the report, and pick the forms. The company launched on Y Combinator's Fall 2026 list on 30 October.

Reconero's pitch cites a figure from past studies. They estimated roughly 40 percent of an officer's work is at a desk rather than on patrol. Its product is aimed at four kinds of that desk work: paperwork, footage review, answers to policy and law questions, and data pulls that today wait on an analyst.

What the product does

The launch page lists four features. Officers can ask policy and state-law questions by voice or text and get an answer with citations. The system scans bodycam, CCTV, dashcam and interview video. It finds moments like sobriety tests, searches and arrests, and timestamps each one. It drafts the report narrative from the footage, with each line linked to the timestamp it came from. It also picks the right forms for the case and fills them in. The officer reviews and signs.

A fifth claim is that command staff can ask for charts in plain English. Reconero says it answers questions like DUI arrests by month or where incidents cluster, and returns a chart in seconds.

Reconero also says it sits on top of the records and dispatch systems the agency already runs. In police terms, these are RMS and CAD. The launch page says there is no migration and no rip and replace.

Who built it

Reconero was founded by Riwan Azeroual and Edward "JiuJiu" Liu. Azeroual was earlier in defense at Safran. Liu was studying computer science and engineering at Stanford. Reconero says the product is shaped by conversations with more than 100 officers.

Y Combinator's standard terms for a Fall 2026 company give each one $500,000. The launch page carries four public votes at the time of this item.

Where this fits in the AI business

Public safety is a procurement category with slow sales cycles, long legal review and a short list of incumbent vendors. An AI company selling into it has two choices. It can replace one of those vendors directly. Or it can sit on top of the systems the agency already pays for. Reconero chose the second.

That choice decides what a buyer evaluates. The question becomes what the system is allowed to read and write. Read-only access to an RMS and CAD cuts the legal review from months to weeks at some agencies. It also means the agency keeps the system of record on its own servers.

Three things a chief who evaluates this will ask about are not on the launch page. One is how Reconero handles redactions when a bodycam video includes a minor or an uncharged bystander. Another is the retention policy on the drafted narrative when the officer never signs it. The third is proof the chart it drew answered the question it was asked. A chart that answers a misread question is a known failure mode.

For a founder watching the agent category, Reconero is one of several Fall 2026 launches. Each claims to sit on top of existing systems. The sales cycle in public safety is long. It will show whether that approach wins or whether incumbents block it on contract terms.

Source

Reconero's launch page on Y Combinator.