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>>vermon+(OP)
I don't think using the facial recognition is necessarily wrong to help identify probable suspects, but arresting someone based on a facial match algorithm is definitely going too far.

Of course really I blame the AI/ML hucksters for part of this mess who have sold us the idea of machines replacing rather than augmenting human decision making.

>>hpoe+V1
I think it is very wrong. Faces are anything but unique. Having a particular face should not result in you being a suspect. Only once actual policing results in you becoming a suspect then this might be a low quality extra signal.

>>jacque+m4
> Having a particular face should not result in you being a suspect. Only once actual policing results in you becoming a suspect then this might be a low quality extra signal.

Having a picture or just a description of the face is one of the most important pieces of information the police has in order to do actual policing. You can be arrested for just broadly matching the description if you happen to be in the vicinity.

Had the guy been convicted of anything just based on that evidence, this would be a scandal. As it is, a suspect is just a suspect and this kind of thing happens all the time, because humans are just as fallible. It's just not news when there's no AI involved.