Pregnant woman's arrest in carjacking case spurs call to end Detroit police facial recognition
Pregnant woman's arrest in carjacking case spurs call to end Detroit police facial recognition
A Detroit woman who was arrested in connection with a suspected robbery and carjacking when she was eight months pregnant is suing the city and one of its police officers for what she says is an over- reliance on facial recognition technology.
They also need to be suing the companies that are hawking this bullshit and getting rich off taxpayer money. Our officials need to make better decisions when purchasing shit like this. For instance, make sure there is some kind of fund set up by the provider of this technology to cover costs and liability when mistakes like this are made. Or at least hold them accountable. This is bullshit that the taxpayers pay for this on both ends, and these companies just walk away counting our money. Modern day snake oil.
Edit: I don't want the snake oil comment to diminish the fact that this is fucking with people's lives.I thought the same thing. I can only imagine police departments are being sold an elaborate tall tale of how this will save money and the accuracy is unbelievably high.
Detroit detectives showed a photo lineup to the carjacking victim, who positively identified Woodruff.
Note only did facial recognition fail but so did the victim
We've give full circle people! Remember back in the day (even now) police would get the description of a suspect, usually a black male l, and they would just go around arresting all black men in a 10 mile radius? Well now software can take all the racial profiling duties
spurs call
So they're not gonna do anything about it, got it.