Man jailed due to faulty face recognition says Florida cops ignored other evidence
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California, now Florida, same pattern, law enforcement ignoring evidence. The issue is NOT technology.....
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Cops fucking up while taking shortcuts instead of doing actual investigative work? Must be a day ending in "Y".
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Expect more of this. Cops & prosecutors can put you in prison if they decide they want you to be in prison. With as messy as surveillance is & how the US has hardly any personal data protections, the state will only have more & more ways to frame up citizens.
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There is a reason ACAB is a popular saying. I say this as someone with family that are cops. I never believe a word they tell me.
Over and over cops do shit that's heinously evil and get maybe a slap on the wrist if that.
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They couldn't care less about getting the right person. They just want a Black person to close the case and satisfy their overwhelming racism. And yes, this applies to all of them.
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We're in trouble when the goal is simply to close cases rather than punishing the guilty. As in this case, it's often about getting a conviction and suspects are considered fungible.
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Making such egregious omissions in the affidavit seeking an arrest warrant seems like a good way to anger the judge. It's the same as fabricating evidence at this point. Police unions are notorious for protecting their own from consequences for misbehavior, but they also need to stay on good terms with the judges that sign their warrants. Maybe, just maybe, the need to placate the judge will be enough that they'll be willing to throw this one under the bus.
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FACES, FAECES... apparently not much difference whichever way you look at it.
In before the AI apologists/hypers get here - https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-year
In before the AI apologists/hypers get here - https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-year
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"publicly branded with a mugshot that remains accessible online"
And they omitted exculpatory evidence from the warrant. And the officer seeking the warrant had been fired by the sheriff department and then rehired by the police department. Surely, this should result in a 7-figure settlement.
And they omitted exculpatory evidence from the warrant. And the officer seeking the warrant had been fired by the sheriff department and then rehired by the police department. Surely, this should result in a 7-figure settlement.
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They omitted exculpatory information to obtain the warrant. That's not lazy, it's corrupt.
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The corner cutting, laziness and ineptitude in doing one's job described in the article is seemingly everywhere these days... you can't rely on anyone to do anything any more. Even in "important" roles like - as here - police, lawyers, doctors and so on.
A while ago, I commented on another Ars article and provided an anecdote about a lawyer cutting corners:
It's everywhere and it's getting worse.
A while ago, I commented on another Ars article and provided an anecdote about a lawyer cutting corners:
It's everywhere and it's getting worse.
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Its not just facial recognition going wrong in Florida, FHP is currently being sued by a woman wrongfully arrested and spent 13 days in jail because they simply found a license plate through Flock and did precisely dick investigative work.
https://www.wesh.com/article/lindsey-isaacs-lawsuit-fhp-wrongful-arrest-hit-and-run/71535849
https://www.wesh.com/article/lindsey-isaacs-lawsuit-fhp-wrongful-arrest-hit-and-run/71535849
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I was at Jacksonville Beach last weekend and could not believe the number of police officers that were present. It felt like (and likely is) a police state. Patrolling in their SUVs, harassing people - literally driving where people were walking, playing with their DJI drones (that we can no longer buy as private citizens.)
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Serious question - WTAF? Police solidarity is some fucking bullshit.
They always like to claim that there are "bad apples" in the bunch, most of them are good. Bullshit. If you're good, you call out the bad apples, you discipline them, fire them, prosecute them in appropriate cases. You don't close ranks and, as in here, in many cases promote them.
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If the manager identified the actual suspect as a regular, and there is a McDonalds app tied to them with payment info, why not just go get that guy? How did the case even go this wrong? How is that harder than using FACES?
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What's great for the taxpayer is that you get to pay for the cop, pay for the AI, pay for the false imprisonment, and pay for the compensation... and the only system functioning as intended is the compensation.
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This bullshit is only going to get worse. I mean, even 20 years ago, how often did you hear “the computer says” as a reason/excuse to believe whatever the machine spit out was unimpeachable truth? AI (and lazy/corrupt law enforcement) will eventually put someone on death row.
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This is a quite stupid comment. A cursory search on the Internet (you know, the sort of solid "investigative work" that Jacksonville Beach Police Corporal Scott O’Connell would do) shows that Robert Dillon (whose face can, sadly, still be found associated with this case, albeit now in a lot of articles about "innocent man sues police") is in fact a white guy. As is, apparently, whoever was actually trying to entice a child into leaving a fast food restaurant with him.
This isn't "black and white" (in case anyone was maybe thinking "Oh, well, at least this won't happen to me--I'm white!"). It's "blue" vs. "everyone else". It's also yet another example of 21st century brain rot, like the Kids These Days Who Can't Write a Simple Essay Without a ChatBot...but when some scumbag cop does it, an innocent man has his life torn apart. (Let's also not forget that, as best as I can tell, someone really did try to entice a young girl into leaving a public place with him...Did anyone ever bother to actually catch whoever that was? To do any actual investigation?)
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Laws should be in place to hold individual offices accountable for crap like this.
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To quote the Talking Heads "Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was".
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scortiusthecharioteer
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Remember when you take your ethics training every single year like I've done for the last 15 years where companies and organizations train you to "see something, say something", essentially. Then remember police operate in exactly the opposite way of that and have peoples lives in their hands.
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The state has a hard time getting its agents to commit illegal acts on behalf of the state if the agents suffer consequences for doing so. The state very implicitly wants you to know that you can be easily killed by an agent of the state for no reason at all, and that agent will go home to his family and sleep just fine so you'd better comply... citizen!
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Machine learning may not be the root cause of police misconduct, but the implementation of these facial match-makers and their subsidized / cheap access (comparative to the cost of getting it wrong), lack of oversight, over-hype, general in-explicability (aka black-boxness) is certainly empowering bad behavior.
Remember the Rivian lady, who had to use her car's footage as evidence to disprove the ALPR "evidence" used to argue she was a porch pirate?
This is becoming a national issue, and so can't be left to the individual states to regulate. We'll see more cases, until one is galling enough that Congress is forced to act. On that note, if anyone is running for office on that platform, please advertise that!
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I’ve caught glaring mistakes with Google and Apple translate that have completely inverted the meaning of the text. I always double and triple check the output, and this is just for communicating with my extended family when my mediocre grasp of Spanish fails me. There is no way I’d trust it for something like conveying bail conditions. That is what certified translators are for.
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Of course the primary blame falls on the police, but in this and similar cases of obviously wrongful arrests, what is the role of the judge, and the judiciary in general? The first line of defense against unreasonable arrests is supposed to be that you need a warrant approved and signed by a judge. That must imply some duty of diligence on the part of the judge, because a mindless rubber stamp is obviously no defense at all.
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I would be interested to learn whether machine translation has been found by any US court to be an acceptable method.
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But that wouldn't have included a paid
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These are good questions. I certainly hope the judge would apply some thought to the affidavit, even if:
Sure, it's a good idea for the paper trail to include all that. But is there some reason a judge has to ignore those details if they're omitted?
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You have to be kidding me.
Wait, what?!???
Oh, come the f^&$ on!
WTAF is going on with the "leadership" in these departments?
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And the sad thing is, there'll be people out there that believe that because of just the arrest, there must be some basis to it.
He'll never get over that stigma. Christ on a crutch, what an awful thing.
He'll never get over that stigma. Christ on a crutch, what an awful thing.
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