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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: 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?