Detroit police can no longer use facial recognition results as the sole basis for arrests
Detroit police can no longer use facial recognition results as the sole basis for arrests
The Detroit Police Department has to adopt new rules curbing its reliance on facial recognition technology after the city reached a settlement this week with Robert Williams, a Black man who was wrongfully arrested in 2020 due to a false face match.
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Wait. They could before??? wtf
It's insane that false arrests had to be made before the law was changed considering that experts have been very clear about the potential dangers of relying on facial recognition alone.
The thing is, police and politicians don't care about getting correct results, they only care about results. An innocent person convicted is still "case closed" and "another criminal punished."
Politicians can be made to care by threatening their jobs, but the police still don't give a shit about catching the right person as long as they can put somebody behind bars by any means possible.
I'm their view, the experts are part of the problem and should be ignored.
There's a lot of issues with forensics sciences that send a lot of innocent people to jail.