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Logan CusanoandClaude Opus 5.5 3e9ca4be06 Merge feat/297-cheaper-ai into feat/299-correlation-simplify
Resolve upload.py (no-scene fallback uses the new _correlate with #298's
non_event_chatter reason) and chatter_classifier docstring (gate built, off by
default). Fold intelligence._llm_bool into incident_correlator.parse_llm_bool (#88).

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"""
Upstream dispatch-vs-chatter classifier — SHADOW MODE (server-26#115 follow-up).
Three live measurement windows (CORRELATION_REVIEW_0907.md, _0907b.md, _0912.md)
and two consensus-layer fixes (#125, #126) all converged on the same conclusion:
the actual non-event-promotion problem lives upstream of correlation entirely.
Radio housekeeping — unit check-ins, roll call, bare 10-4/10-8/98 acknowledgements
— has no incident content for `intelligence.extract_scenes` to find, but nothing
stops it from being sent to the scene-extraction LLM and coming out the other end
as a thin "scene" for the correlator to then judge. See CORRELATION_REVIEW_0912.md
("Reminder: the real fix is still unscoped") and issue #115.
This module is that classifier. It is a PURE function of the transcript text —
no Firestore, no LLM call, no side effects — so it is cheap to run on every
transcript and cheap to test against real dumps offline.
A COST GATE SINCE server-26#298, through `gate_chatter`, not
`classify_chatter` — built but OFF by default (`chatter_gate_enabled`) until a
shadow window shows gated calls don't over-merge. `classify_chatter` is still
the shadow verdict recorded on every call doc (`chatter_classifier_verdict` /
`chatter_classifier_reason`), so the `/admin` tallies keep measuring the same
thing. The gate is stricter on the one shape the #127 review flagged as a live
false-positive risk: `roll_call` matches "roll call" anywhere, so "Delayed for
roll call, then respond to a structure fire at 12 Main Street" is a roll_call
verdict. The gate only skips a roll call whose remaining words are callsigns
and roll-call phrasing. When enabled, gated transcripts skip transcript
correction and scene extraction (and with it embedding and geocoding); the free
rule paths (clearance parse, self-initiated/plate backstop) still run.
Precision over recall, deliberately. A false positive here — flagging a REAL
event as chatter — would, once live, silently mean that event never gets a
scene, never gets tags/location/severity, and never has a chance to become an
incident. That is a much bigger, harder-to-notice failure than a false
negative (a housekeeping call that still goes through the existing expensive
pipeline and gets judged "not an incident" the same way it is today). When a
transcript doesn't clearly match one of the shapes below, this returns
(False, None) and the existing pipeline runs exactly as it does today.
Patterns are drawn from hand-labeled examples in CORRELATION_REVIEW_0907b.md
and CORRELATION_REVIEW_0912.md, cross-referenced against the real transcripts
in corr_dump_9-7_0437am.json / corr_dump_9-7_pm.json / corr_dump_9-12.json —
not invented regexes. See the backtest script referenced in the PR for the
per-dump catch rate and false-positive count.
"""
import re
from typing import Optional
# Police/law-enforcement phonetic alphabet words (APCO + NATO). Deliberately
# duplicated from intelligence.py's `_PHONETIC_ALPHA_WORDS` rather than
# imported — intelligence.py imports this module (to write the shadow-mode
# verdict onto the call doc), so importing back would be circular. Keep the
# two sets in sync if either changes; they're small and rarely touched.
_PHONETIC_ALPHA_WORDS = frozenset({
# APCO (law enforcement)
"adam", "baker", "charles", "david", "edward", "frank", "george", "henry",
"ida", "john", "king", "lincoln", "mary", "nora", "ocean", "paul", "queen",
"robert", "sam", "tom", "union", "victor", "william", "x-ray", "young", "zebra",
# NATO
"alpha", "bravo", "charlie", "delta", "echo", "foxtrot", "golf", "hotel",
"india", "juliet", "kilo", "lima", "mike", "november", "oscar", "papa",
"quebec", "romeo", "sierra", "tango", "uniform", "whiskey", "yankee", "zulu",
})
_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r"[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\-]*")
# Bare radio-procedure words that carry zero incident content by themselves.
# Deliberately small and literal — this is not a general stopword list, it's
# the exact vocabulary observed in hand-labeled chatter transcripts. Words
# that are ambiguous outside a pure-procedure context (e.g. "location",
# "call", "phone", "number", "go") are left OUT on purpose: including them
# risks reducing a real, substantive transcript down to nothing.
_FILLER_WORDS = frozenset({
"to", "this", "is", "the", "a", "and", "for", "you", "can", "i", "in",
"on", "of", "that", "just", "from", "out", "ok", "okay", "at", "be",
"show", "me", "mark", "marked", "charge", "standby", "stand", "by",
"clear", "available", "affirm", "affirmative", "negative", "copy",
"copies", "received", "roger",
})
# Agency/procedural designators — who's being addressed, not what happened.
_RADIO_DESIGNATORS = frozenset({
"central", "dispatch", "headquarters", "hq", "post", "unit", "sergeant",
"sgt", "metro", "mta", "division", "county",
})
_ROLL_CALL_RE = re.compile(r"\broll\s*call\b")
def _tokenize(transcript: str) -> list[str]:
return _TOKEN_RE.findall(transcript.lower())
def _is_filler_token(token: str) -> bool:
# Any token starting with a digit is a unit ID, 10-code, badge/post
# number, or call-number fragment ("10-4", "6-8", "72-holland",
# "11-victor", "98", "114") — procedural, not incident content. This is
# deliberately broad: a real event transcript that happens to include a
# digit-led token (an address number, a case number) still has other,
# non-digit descriptive words left over, so this alone never reduces a
# real transcript to nothing. See the backtest for confirmation.
if token[0].isdigit():
return True
return (
token in _FILLER_WORDS
or token in _RADIO_DESIGNATORS
or token in _PHONETIC_ALPHA_WORDS
)
def classify_chatter(transcript: Optional[str]) -> tuple[bool, Optional[str]]:
"""
Pure classification of a transcript as non-event radio housekeeping.
Returns (is_chatter, reason):
(True, "roll_call") — contains a roll-call announcement
(True, "bare_acknowledgement") — every token is a callsign/10-code/
procedural filler word; nothing else
(False, None) — not confidently chatter; let the
existing pipeline run as today
Takes only the transcript. Other call metadata (talkgroup, severity, tags)
doesn't exist yet at the point this needs to run — this classifier is
upstream of the scene-extraction call that produces those fields — so it
deliberately doesn't take them as input.
"""
if not transcript or not transcript.strip():
return False, None
lowered = transcript.lower()
if _ROLL_CALL_RE.search(lowered):
return True, "roll_call"
tokens = _tokenize(transcript)
if not tokens:
return False, None
if any(not _is_filler_token(t) for t in tokens):
return False, None
return True, "bare_acknowledgement"
# Words a roll call is made of, beyond the filler/designator/phonetic sets.
_ROLL_CALL_WORDS = frozenset({
"roll", "call", "all", "cars", "car", "patrol", "patrols", "troop", "staff",
"concludes", "time", "came", "because", "volunteer", "nyc", "kl", "henry",
"here", "present", "s", "m", "it",
})
# A roll call may name a place or two ("Post 4, Ossining"); more than this many
# leftover words means something else is being said in the same transmission.
_ROLL_CALL_MAX_LEFTOVER = 2
def gate_chatter(transcript: Optional[str]) -> tuple[bool, Optional[str]]:
"""
Whether to skip paid AI for this transcript (server-26#298).
`classify_chatter`'s verdict, with roll_call narrowed: the transcript must
be roll-call content end to end, not a roll call mentioned on the way to
something real. Precision over recall still — a false positive here means
a real event never gets a scene.
"""
is_chatter, reason = classify_chatter(transcript)
if not is_chatter:
return False, None
if reason == "roll_call":
leftover = [
t for t in _tokenize(transcript or "")
if not _is_filler_token(t) and t not in _ROLL_CALL_WORDS
]
if len(leftover) > _ROLL_CALL_MAX_LEFTOVER:
return False, None
return True, reason