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posted by chromas on Friday July 17 2020, @02:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-y—oh-wait dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:49AM (20 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:49AM (#1023208) Journal

    You might be surprised :) Remember, I'm a voracious reader and always was; at the age of 8 I was reading about, and *understanding,* the chemistry and physics (but not the math, ugh) of uranium fission. I took a keen interest in anything I could get my hands on at the library, mostly science but plenty of history too.

    It's just a goddamn shame you don't seem to have retained any of that information you supposedly got in 6th grade, seeing as you seem to have no issue with people wiping their ass on the Constitution so long as "your side" doesn't suffer. To which I say, just wait...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:17AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:17AM (#1023226)

    You don't seem to have retained much about "*understanding,* the chemistry and physics (but not the math, ugh) of uranium fission", as you ended up becoming a pharmacy tech?

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:58PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:58PM (#1023384) Journal

      I was doing earth science with a geology major in college, and my junior year research proposal had to do with thorium fission. The school took and still takes a lot of oil money, though, so that went precisely nowhere. Besides which, I was always a giant chemistry geek, so this is a natural fit.

      What's your problem, anyway? I'm at least doing something productive. What do you do, sit around all day whacking off to bestiality porn?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:23AM (17 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:23AM (#1023229) Journal

    Who wipes their ass on the constitution more often? First people in line are all those SOBs who want to eliminate the second amendment. That is just about 75% of the D party, and the other 25% just don't give a damn.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:57PM (16 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:57PM (#1023382) Journal

      So you and all the other second-amendment types had better get out there and deal with the DHS driving up to people in unmarked vans and hauling them off to undisclosed locations.

      After all, the purpose of the 2A is to fight off tyrants and threats to the Constitution, isn't it? So grab your penis extension, waddle on out there, and start defending freedom! Because you definitely aren't just posturing and blowing smoke with all that jingoistic bullshit, riiiiight? Come on, MARCH, you sack of shit!

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:28PM (15 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:28PM (#1023394) Journal

        You'll have to practice some more before you can become a drill instructor.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:10PM (14 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:10PM (#1023499) Journal

          What's the point of trying to drill wet Jell-O like you? I don't care that you're 4-F ("forever fucktarded"), I just want you to put your money where your mouth is.

          Or were you lying about your motives the whole time? That's unpossible!

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          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:55PM (13 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:55PM (#1023517) Journal

            I'm sure that you come from a whole family of 4-F, but I'm not part of that inbreeding program.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:56PM (12 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:56PM (#1023552) Journal

              Yeah, YOUR family tree looks like a telephone pole shagged a Chia pet...which was also its cousin to begin with.

              Fact remains, you're a goddamn hypocrite. You make all this noise about resisting tyranny with your boomsticks, and now that there is actual Gestapo-style abduction of citizens happening on our very own soil here and now, you say not a word against it. Indeed, one gets the sense that you approve of it. And that means you're complicit.

              Put your money where your mouth is and use those much-vaunted second amendment rights of yours, or you will lose them.

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              • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:35AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:35AM (#1023559)

                The alleged rioters and anarchists were lawfully arrested and can defend themselves in court.

                Stop living in your fantasy world, or move your insurrection to Syrupland where it belongs.

              • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:00AM (10 children)

                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:00AM (#1023577) Journal

                I see nothing terribly out of order here. Rioters. Federal property involved in some of the rioting. Federal officers question some of said rioters. Rioter invokes his right to speak to a lawyer before answering questions. Federal officers allow rioter to go home. I strongly suspect that federal officers are preparing the case against said rioter, and they will be summoning him to court soon. At which time, he may barricade himself inside his hovel, or he may agree to become an informant, or he may go to trial, and be found innocent or guilty.

                What, you expect me to be like his gullible mayor, and believe every word of his narrative? Puuh-LEASE. You have at least ten or fifteen gray matter cells. Think about it.

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:14AM (9 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:14AM (#1023601) Journal

                  We have procedures for dealing with vandals. They do not involve kidnapping. You refuse to see the point because you're cheerleading the rolling destruction of the Constitution. They will come for you soon enough...

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                  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:51AM (8 children)

                    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:51AM (#1023610) Journal

                    No, it is you who is cheerleading here. You don't like the Republic in which you were brought up. You prefer some romanticized notion of a democracy. Well, we DO NOT live in a democracy. You are cheerleading the destruction of the Republic. You probably won't get the democracy that you think you want. More likely, you'll face years, maybe decades of anarchy. Petty warlords and such will rule the streets, until a strong government takes it back. Wake the fuck up - there is no democracy, and you can't force it onto people.

                    If you don't like your house, do you try to make repairs to it, or do you just burn it down? You don't like the republic, start FIXING IT, don't cheer for the rioters.

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 19 2020, @07:53PM (7 children)

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday July 19 2020, @07:53PM (#1023814) Journal

                      Stop stealing my lines...or are you telling me you *like* things as they are now and where they're going?!

                      Listen, dipfuck, I hear you fat wheezing armchair generals constantly bloviating about how "muh gunz!" are *specifically* to be used at a time like this--when the government jumps the rails and starts kidnapping citizens with no due process!--always going on about how you're such badass heroes-in-retirement just *waiting* for some soulless empty suit to start offending against the Constitution, at which point you'll spring into action and save the motherfuckin' day, guns-a-blazin'.

                      But I don't see you doing that. Instead I see weaksauce excuses. "Butbutbutbut THEY'RE VANDALS!" Yeah, and the solution to graffiti is soap and water, and using the already-existing channels to prosecute the vandals. Not picking people up off the goddamn street at random, shoving them into unmarked vans, taking them Christ knows where, doing Buddha knows what to them...that shit is what fascists do.

                      This is literally, word for word, action for action, down to the excuse of "muh property damage!!11111one," what the Nazis did and what other fascist regimes do. We had a war about this. The whole world came. Your grandfather might have personally shot and killed some of the people responsible for it. Do you really want to die on the opposite side?

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                      • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 20 2020, @12:37AM (6 children)

                        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 20 2020, @12:37AM (#1023881) Journal

                        Gotta give you credit - you're good at parroting those talking points spoon fed to you an CNN.

                        taking them Christ knows where, doing Buddha knows what to them

                        Apparently, you didn't RTFS or RTFA. Dude was taken to the Federal Building, and questioned. When he stated that he wanted a lawyer before answering questions, they cut him loose.

                        Now, go back, and look what the fascists did in Germany. Those socialist fascists in Germany took people away, and only parts of bodies were ever found. And, the socialists in China? Pretty much the same. And the socialists in Russia? Those god-damned socialist fascists all over the world are famous for disappearing people, permanently.

                        A ride to the local Federal building, and refusing to answer questions without a lawyer, then being shown to the door, simply DOES NOT COUNT.

                        The kidnapping that you speak of, was pretty common back in the late 1700's and the first decade of the 1800's. The Brits called it "impressing, we called it a violation of human rights. Those "impressed" sailors might get home in a couple years, or maybe in the same decade, or maybe not at all. THAT is a kidnapping.

                        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:18AM (5 children)

                          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:18AM (#1024373) Journal

                          Why in the fucking fuck does it matter what economic system the kidnappers adhere to?!

                          You tribal goddamn moron! This should not be happening in the US! And if you think the extent it's gone to now is where it's going to stop, you have another thing coming. Even you can't possibly be that fucking naive, which means you're willfully lying by omission.

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                          • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 21 2020, @02:00AM (4 children)

                            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 21 2020, @02:00AM (#1024399) Journal

                            It only matters because socialists and fascists believe that "the ends justifies the means".

                            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 21 2020, @02:59AM (3 children)

                              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 21 2020, @02:59AM (#1024419) Journal

                              Sounds like a good description of the current administration, including Hair Fuhrer. This complete lack of self-awareness on your part is a lifestyle choice; no one is born like this.

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                              • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:37AM (2 children)

                                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:37AM (#1024429) Journal

                                Self awareness is something that is seriously lacking amongst the rioters and other fools hoping for the boogaloo.

                                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:28AM (1 child)

                                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:28AM (#1024806) Journal

                                  You've spent plenty of time and words and pixels disasturbating over "the boogaloo," especially insofar as you'll get to show the world what a complete badass you are...oh, and that thing about your grandkids not being slaves to "make brown and black people happy." Don't fucking insult our intelligence here; the only reason you aren't jizzing clear through your shorts over the idea is you haven't been able to get it up since Michael Jackson was black.

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                                  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:46AM

                                    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:46AM (#1024811) Journal

                                    You really are sick, aren't you? I promise, if you showed any intelligence, I would never insult your intelligence. Fact is, we have at least half a million self-loathing whites out there stirring the shit, and riling up the blacks and the browns. For at least fifty years, we've had people like Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton stirring the shit, and making every problem worse with their presence. Now, white people have figured out that they can profit from the same kind of crap.

                                    Remember that "silent majority"? Well, it's growing larger, every day. People are buying firearms in record numbers. Some of them are Democrats, who are jumping off that sinking ship of "gun control".

                                    A couple of Dems in St. Louis is in the news these days, after abandoning the party line: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/mark-mccloskey-responds-to-felony-charges-prosecutor-keeps-criminals-safe-from-us/ [thetruthaboutguns.com]

                                    I think they are #walkaway candidates, don't you?