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>>vermon+(OP)
He wasn't arrested until the shop owner had also "identified" him. The cops used a single frame of grainy video to pull his driver's license photo, and then put that photo in a lineup and showed the store clerk.

The store clerk (who hadn't witnessed the crime and was going off the same frame of video fed into the facial recognition software) said the driver's license photo was a match.

There are several problems with the conduct of the police in this story but IMHO the use of facial recognition is not the most egregious.

>>ghostp+g5
Yes, this is a story of police misconduct. The regulation of facial recognition that is required is regulation against police/authority stupidity. The FR system aids in throwing away misses, leaving investigative leads. But if a criminal is not in the FR database to begin with, any results of the FR are wastes of time.