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MACO Project: Law Enforcement CAD Data Autocoder

U.S. Department of Justice — Office of Justice Programs · Other justice agency · 2025

status as stated: Pre-deploymentUse-case inventory entryNLP / classification

The DOJ 2025 inventory lists MACO Project: Law Enforcement CAD Data Autocoder for U.S. Department of Justice — Office of Justice Programs. The row states the stage as Pre-deployment; it classifies the use case as Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Law Enforcement.

MACO is intended to solve the lack of standardization in Computer-Aided Dispatch CAD data across law enforcement agencies CAD event descriptions are free-text highly variable and differ widely in terminology structure and coding practices Because of this inconsistency it is currently not possible to aggregate compare or analyze CAD data across jurisdictions at scale MACO uses machine learning and language models to automatically classify raw CAD text into a standardized event taxonomy enabling consistent analysis cross-agency comparisons and the development…

Official record: justice.gov · archived copy
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: doj-inventory-2025
Notes: DOJ spreadsheet row DOJ-0201; original component field: Department of Justice / OJP.

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