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Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend

arstechnica.com Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend

US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1174411

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Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend

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This wasn’t just a bad facial recognition issue. During the photo lineup the detective intentionally used a many years old photograph of the victim that more closely matched the person in the surveillance video even though she had a current photo available. She also knew the woman in the surveillance video was definitely not 8 months pregnant, so it couldn’t possibly be the woman they identified, but she still arrested the victim anyway.
Yes the facial recognition gave a false positive but any reasonable person would recognize instantly that they had the wrong person. The detective was either incompetent or a liar.
- Incompetent, you don’t even need an undergraduate degree to be a detective in Detroit:
  Must be at least 18 years of age Must be a United States citizen Must have 20/20 vision or corrected 20/20 vision Must have normal color and depth perception vision Must hold a valid driver’s license Must have a good driving record Must have a high school diploma or GED Must have no felony convictions
  This technology is going to be a nightmare when combined with decades of deliberately selecting for low iq in the police hiring process.
  It seems obvious to check that the women in surveillance footage is also pregnant. But, if you have poor critical reasoning skills and you’re only looking for confirmation I can totally see how pregnancy could be missed.
  Incompetence.
- Cops will be cops

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