307 Group is a think tank for the people who carry the decision: plain-language analysis on artificial intelligence, technology, and operational data for police command staff. Nothing here is for sale. The conversation is the point.
Start a ConversationAsk a room of command staff what artificial intelligence means for their agency and the honest answers stop at chatbots and license plate readers. Meanwhile the term is stamped on every product pitch, every conference agenda, and every headline about the future of the profession.
So policing does what it always does with technology: it splits. One camp leans in hard, adopting tools without the research to know what they actually do or what they will demand of the officers who use them. The other camp turns away entirely, and walks past a genuine force multiplier because nobody translated it into operational terms. Both camps lose, and both camps are full of good cops.
The problem is not a lack of data or a lack of talent. It is the absence of independent, operationally grounded analysis between the two.
307 Group is a command advisory think tank with a simple purpose: translate research, technology, and operational data into plain language that a chief, a sheriff, or a shift commander can actually use. We read the studies, test the tools, and think out loud with the people who have to live with the results.
Everything here is free. This is a forum, not a firm: a place to talk through the questions in front of your agency with someone who has worn the uniform, supervised the shifts, and studied the technology at the doctoral level.
What artificial intelligence actually is, and is not, for policing. Cutting through the pitch decks and the panic alike: honest evaluation frameworks, the questions to ask before a pilot, and what a technology will demand of your people long after the contract is signed.
Most agencies already own the answers to their staffing, deployment, and demand questions. Those answers sit in CAD and RMS exports that nobody has time to open. We think, write, and talk about how command staff can see that data clearly, and put it to work with the tools an agency already has.
Technology only pays off when people can use it. That means training built around real competence rather than checkbox compliance, and leaders developed to exercise judgment about the tools their officers carry. Capability lives in people first and equipment second.
A.J. Walker is a police lieutenant and second-in-command of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Police Department, where he leads eleven sworn officers serving a campus community of more than eleven thousand. A U.S. Army Military Police veteran, he deployed to Iraq in 2009 and Afghanistan in 2012, and completed his service in an Army Reserve military intelligence battalion. Born and raised on Chicago's west side, he began his Wisconsin policing career with the Green Bay Police Department in 2015, serving as a field training officer and school resource officer before moving to command.
He is a doctoral candidate in Applied Leadership at UW-Green Bay, where his research examines AI-assisted analysis of police operational data. A graduate of Northwestern University's School of Police Staff and Command and the FBI-LEEDA Trilogy, he holds five Wisconsin instructor certifications and serves on two Wisconsin DOJ Training and Standards Bureau advisory committees, including the AI Technology Advisory Committee. He founded 307 Group as an independent forum for the analysis he believes the profession is missing. He coaches high school football, and is a husband and father of three.
There is nothing for sale here. No retainer, no pitch, no follow-up sequence. If you lead an agency and you are working through an AI question, a technology decision, or what your own data might be trying to tell you, reach out. The conversation is free, collegial, and stays between us.