Amid ever-increasing crime and a police department that is overworked and acutely understaffed, the New Orleans district attorney has assembled a task force composed of experts who exploit artificial intelligence to gather the evidence needed to combat crime.

The DA, Jason Williams, told The Wall Street Journal his OSINT Task Force — Open Source Intelligence — leans on the collection of intelligence through information that’s publicly available. Social media accounts of criminals, for example.

The 11-person task force is composed of employees from nonprofit Bancroft Global Development and Tranquility AI, a startup that boasts former U.S. intelligence analysts who used AI to track terrorist cells, including Osama bin Laden.