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Facial recognition linked to a second wrongful arrest by Detroit police:
A false facial recognition match has led to the arrest of another innocent person. According to the Detroit Free Press, police in the city arrested a man for allegedly reaching into a person's car, taking their phone and throwing it, breaking the case and damaging the screen in the process.
Facial recognition flagged Michael Oliver as a possible suspect, and the victim identified him in a photo lineup as the person who damaged their phone. Oliver was charged with a felony count of larceny over the May 2019 incident. He said he didn't commit the crime and the evidence supported his claim.
The perpetrator, who was recorded in footage captured on a phone, doesn't look like Oliver. For one thing, he has tattoos on his arms, and there aren't any visible on the person in the video. When Oliver's attorney took photos of him to the victim and an assistant prosecutor, they agreed Oliver had been misidentified. A judge later dismissed the case.
[...] Late last month, Detroit Police Chief James Craig suggested the technology the department uses, which was created by DataWorks Plus, isn't always reliable. "If we were just to use the technology by itself, to identify someone, I would say 96 percent of the time it would misidentify," he said in a public meeting, according to Motherboard. From the start of the year through June 22nd, the force used the software 70 times per the department's public data. In all but two of those cases, the person whose image the technology analyzed was Black.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @04:42PM (1 child)
are you on The Cheese? have you ever been to county jail? how about for something you didn't even fucking do? do you have any idea on how incompetent and callous the "justice system" is? these motherfuckers charge people, not even caring if it's the right person, drag you slowly through jail holding tanks with hardened criminals, get you sick in jail with god knows what disease, leave you in jail longer than your sentence due to all sorts of BS reasons, subject you to all manner of psychological trauma, etc. Anything that makes these moronic fucks more apt to mischarge people shouldn't be allowed to be used. It will take them forever to correct the mistake if they ever do. Most won't get corrected by the modern US slavery system. fuckkkkkk themmm!
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:29AM
Yup, this ^^^. You're pretty much guilty until proven innocent in the USA. Too many people love to say "it's the best in the world". No it is not, and even if it was, that doesn't mean it's an okay system. It's badly broken.