Kashmir HillA woman in Manhattan reported to police that an Amazon delivery man, 5'6'', exposed himself to her.
Police did a face recognition search, showed her result, arrested the wrong guy, 6'2''.
What did the NYPD not do? Call Amazon.
Andreas K@kashhill
Why would they call Amazon?
Amazon generally subcontracts delivery, and that is generally a multilevel pyramid of contractors.
Our authorities once managed to raid an Amazon delivery warehouse, issue a ton of fines and even arrests for bad employment conditions and illegal employment, and carefully didn't bother the local Amazon subsidiary at all.
And as always with "AI output" validate what you get. They wouldn't (hopefully) trust an identification by a witness without further
@kashhill
proof. But because some image comparison algorithm extracted certain probabilities that the image of guy B looks like the guy A that they look for does not mean it's correct. A couple of inches difference of height would be a strong hint that as similar their faces might be (or not) he is not their man.
But hey, magic. Guess the pressure to deliver it's high. And they were not properly trained goose to use the new magic toys.
@yacc143 Amazon would know the subcontractor that delivered to the area.
@kashhill Would they? Or would they to wash their hands in innocence (and avoid the impression that they are fake self-employed contractors) only know the top of the pyramid of contractors?
Which might keep good books on their subcontractors or not.
Depending what is legally more convenient for them.
In our country, at least one industry (builders) were fixed, but that required more or less serious legal changes, with more or less an assumption of tax (including payroll) debt by the client.
Amazon would only care who the specific delivery subcontractor was if they were liable for his taxes, or liable for the last 5 years of payroll taxes if the authorities decide that the delivery guy is actually an employee and not a subcontractor. Then you can be sure Amazon would make sure that the subcontractors don't ever fulfil the legal conditions to be employed.
But the risk is carried somewhere in the pyramid below Amazon, and the legal risk is lower if Amazon doesn't know the details,
But the risk is carried somewhere in the pyramid below Amazon, and the legal risk is lower if Amazon doesn't know the details,