This “colorized” image makes major guesses about the color of:
- skin,
- lips,
- hair,
- eyes, and
- clothes.
It ends up being less than worthless - it can guide one to making suspects of innocents who match arbitrary guesses, and to ignoring the actual perps who don’t match the guesses.
I imagine they have already ran the eye shapes, nostrils, mouth, etc, through all of their databases/AI, etc.
The (biased) colorizing job won’t effect that outcome.
Something tells me they already know who (all) did this.
And that’s even giving it more value than is warranted.
The Puma Co Sheriff’s office has put out a statement asking people not to call their non-emergency line with opinions on the kidnapping. They ask that people instead call the tip line. I bet they are getting a lot of calls from amateur sleuths.