Yeah, cops are using ai facial recognition to identify suspects. As mentioned ai facial recognition is really bad at identifying black people particularly. This results in an increased incidence of wrongful arrest. In America, something like 2/3 of cases go to a plea deal because the people involved cannot afford to fight the charges, so this also results in increases in wrongful conviction.
Cops also use ai to tell where to focus patrols. This uses historical arrest data, often dating back to the 50s. The police tend to arrest more people in areas they patrol more heavily, so the ai ends up suggesting more patrols in areas which were previously sivject to discriminatory laws. They’ve automated away discrimanotory over-policing
Yeah, cops are using ai facial recognition to identify suspects. As mentioned ai facial recognition is really bad at identifying black people particularly. This results in an increased incidence of wrongful arrest. In America, something like 2/3 of cases go to a plea deal because the people involved cannot afford to fight the charges, so this also results in increases in wrongful conviction.
Cops also use ai to tell where to focus patrols. This uses historical arrest data, often dating back to the 50s. The police tend to arrest more people in areas they patrol more heavily, so the ai ends up suggesting more patrols in areas which were previously sivject to discriminatory laws. They’ve automated away discrimanotory over-policing