New Orleans' Facial Recognition Systems Led to Exactly Zero Arrests in Nine Months
. The decision was hailed as a great victory by civil liberties advocates.limited use of the technology when police were investigating “crimes of violence” or were attempting to ID a missing person. At the time,
that re-instituting face-recording capabilities was really “a win for everybody” and “a tremendous stride towards greater public safety.” Unfortunately, this week’s report would seem to show that thoseThe report’s sample size is small, indicating cops rarely even needed toIn addition to the revelation about the scanning tech’s zero-arrest record, the NOLA safety review shows that police
only used it a total of 13 times during the period observed. Of those searches, only five led to matches and, of those matches, two were considered “bad,” meaning the technology identified a person who was actually “not suspected of having committed the crime.” All of the search requests were related to Black suspects, the report notes. Researchers have found facial recognition technology is less reliable in its
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