Jobs · Protective Service · O*NET-SOC 33-3051.00
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers: which tasks is AI doing?
1 of its 30 tasks show measurable AI use, and 52% of that use is automation (AI doing the task) rather than augmentation (AI helping a person do it).
Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.
Tasks with observed AI use
1 of 30
Claude conversations mapped to this job's tasks
Automation share of that use
52%
The rest is augmentation; all usage: 49%
US employment
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US median annual wage
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Which of these does AI already do for you?
Tick the tasks AI handles in your version of this job. Whatever stays unticked is what keeps a person needed: the links a chain waits on. The bars show where people already use AI for each task, from real usage data.
How to read this
Observed use is not the same as replacement. A task can see heavy AI use while the job grows, because the remaining tasks, such as judgment, accountability, and dealing with people, become more valuable. That is the weak-link pattern behind the explainer.
Task lists and wages are US data. The tasks are broadly similar in other countries; pay and employment are not. For your own economy, see work and jobs by country.
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