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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 19 2020, @07:53PM (7 children)
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?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 20 2020, @12:37AM (6 children)
Gotta give you credit - you're good at parroting those talking points spoon fed to you an CNN.
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)
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 21 2020, @02:00AM (4 children)
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)
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:37AM (2 children)
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)
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:46AM
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?