Posted on 08/10/2023 9:12:53 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners came out blasting facial recognition systems for being racist Thursday night.
It is the latest fallout for the false arrest of a pregnant woman for a carjacking she had nothing to do with, leading to a current lawsuit. A vote to ban facial recognition for the Detroit police failed tonight, which would have kept the department from using it for a year.
"This technology appears to be 'techno-racism,' it’s the new Jim Crow that’s falsely arresting innocent people here in Detroit," said Commissioner Willie Burton."This is the third incident here in the city of Detroit. America’s blackest and poorest city where three individuals has been misidentified by technology.
"Robert Williams. Michael Oliver who slept in the Wayne County Jail and had to eat bologna sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a crime he didn’t commit."
But Detroit Police Chief James White defended the software.
"There are, this year 161 homicides, facial recognition has assisted us in getting 16 murderers off the street," he said.
The board discussed the matter with Chief White who doubled down on his view that the arrest of Porcha Woodruff was due to bad investigative work - not a lead generated by facial recognition.
"We don’t need to fear the technology we need to hold folks accountable, which is what this presentation is about today," White said.
Chief White said the detective who misidentified Woodruff leading to her being frisked and cuffed in front of her daughters, is under investigation by Internal Affairs.
He also ordered a broader probe to see if a mix-up like this one happened in other cases.
"This was not facial recognition identifying anybody," White said. "In fact, facial recognition identified 73 people. Human error identified the wrong person and bad tactics, we arrested the wrong person. We have to do better.
"And commissioner, I understand your passion, maybe even your anger. What I am asking you to do, is to look at this whole, total circumstance. Not blame it on a tool but hold me accountable for the officer’s behavior."
The Board is looking at a resolution that would stop the use of facial recognition until the investigation into the carjacking false arrest is finished.
"We all recognize the fact that facial recognition is very controversial," said Commissioner Linda Bernard. "And that the algorithms that are using facial recognition are discriminatory, particularly with respect toward African Americans and people of color and that’s a national fact. Harvard has researched, everybody has researched it."
When the machine says you are Abraham Lincoln, just maybe you are Abraham Lincoln amnesiac.
Libtard AI thinks they all look alike
Defunded police cannot afford $1.99 for the paid app version.
Earlier story with 28 Members of Congress identified as criminals with existing mug shots in crime database.
The ACLU complaint case cited problems....
“Amazon’s face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern. In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool, called “Rekognition,” the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.”
“The false matches were disproportionately of people of color, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus, among them civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).”
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I wonnder how many of the supposedly mistaken identifications of politicians are so far off.
Funny.
Someday AI will send the reply: “To have safe cities again with increased citizen spending on retail, food and entertainment, stop question and frisk or else exclude all persons of color from the area.”
Then will have to be deleted as a computer error.
Excellent! Sic the lawyer buzzards on this AI bullsquat. Bankrupt the transhumanists.
THAT sounds like it was a fun test of the AI.
Makes the AI sound like it’s not ready for Prime Time.
AI got close enough?
Most Politicos are crooks.
Book ‘em, Danno.
Justice will be done, even if the details are more than a bit squirrely.
They’ll just come up with a “safe user” list, much like the TSA terrorist watch list, but in this case, giving a pass to elected politicians and others able to pay.
Why bother with all this, they let them go with a desk appearance that they dont show for anyway.
“we got our man or women, thanks for spending time with use here is a gift card for your troubles hope to see you in court”
(Amazon’s face surveillance technology)
Oh good. The same company that’s training people in use their hands (palms) to buy their food (dry run; even if by accident).
This should end well.......🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄
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5. Perhaps facial recognition of these people wasn’t wrong.
Lots of reds/sympathizers in the Black Caucus and always has
Been - Conyers Jr, Crockett Jr, Maxine Waters, Bobby Rush, Parren Mitchell, Chicago crew, LA crew, NY city reps, including one never publicly identified, etc.
Just saying!!!.
“facial recognition identified 73 people. Human error identified the wrong person “
Tennis courts are racist! Light bulbs are racist! Highways are racist! Everything’s racist!
There a movie with Gary Oldman as a deranged criminal where he uses the frozen, amputated hands of a crime victim to access a safe protected by a palm reader technology.
I can see it now, “Give me a hand with the shopping” .
Just might happen
Probably after the Antichrist and the False Prophet’s Stormtroopers have beheaded a Tribulation Saint (Revelation 20:4), they might just take their right hand and go do a little shopping 🛒🛍️?
Laughing, no doubt.
But not for long...(Revelation 14:9-12)
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The article reveals that the facial recognition system is used to generate a broad list of maybes — in this case over 70. Investigators are then supposed to use other methods and evidence to decide which if any of the leads seem to be correct. The police chief says the arrest was due to bad investigative work AFTER the facial recognition process.
If the system is kicking up large swaths of people based mostly on racial characteristics, that might really be unfair. Also — where do the images in the datbase come from? If the database contains mostly people who have had prior interactions with the criminal justice system. That biases the results towards prior arrestees and excludes newbies. Then the cops can railraod the usual suspects.
But how is any of this different from the old practice of looking through books of mugshots?
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