RegularJoeTennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway.
nullThe case was dismissed on Christmas Eve, but the damage had already been done; she had no money, no coat, and no way home, and subsequently lost her house, her car, and her dog.
The AI fucking up is noteworthy, but real story is right here.
ScubusAmerica makes terrorists and enemies.
There is a woman in this story that lost a lot, due to an untrustworthy and invasive technology. What the hell are you talking about?
All it took for John Wick was losing a dog. This lady lost more. I think the commenter thinks America is an action movie?
Of course the cops keep using it - payments from the inevitable lawsuits don’t come out of their pockets, so why give a shit when there are quotas to make? No accountability breeds irresponsibility.
That would fix it quickly. Wrongful arrest takes funding directly from the agency that did it. 6months in prison, all funds for 6months for that agency. Either everyone will quit or they would shut down completely. Asking the police officers to work for no pay for 6 months would eventually pit them against others making wrongful arrests and make those who don’t care about doing whats right quit because they don’t care about anything but the paycheck. The only people you might have left are those who actually wanted to help the people.
Or they’d just become more corrupt and kill more people to make sure they had no say… Hard to say
DevolutionThe second part. I have no faith the American public doing the right thing.
Asking the police officers to work for no pay for 6 months would eventually pit them against others
More likely would eventually cause them all to quit and look for new jobs. I’m no cop sympathizer, but they don’t get paid enough to survive 2 months without pay, let alone 6. The people who actually wanted to help others would quit too.
I thought filing egregiously inaccurate documents with the court was risking contempt of court (in the best of cases).
Ignoring the court itself, I’d think for a prosecutor or cop this would lead to pretty bad performance reviews.
But if the system has no standards…
baltakateiNo one loved her enough to fight to free her, so she wasn’t worth much to society anyways. — the local DA, probably
KokeshWhat I find interesting is that the authoritarian right complains about the authoritarian left using “big government” to bully their favorite businesses and organizations, while the authoritarian left complains about the authoritarian right using the police to do the same.
It’s like neither side realize that the police are PART OF THAT GOVERNMENT!
That’s not the point, the point is everyone wants to pay less taxes but also they want the government to subsidize their industry and run a balanced budget. It’s just greed and narcissism, nobody actually wants to make the country better. They just say that to advocate for free money for themselves.
Except that what your comment misses is that the right thinks that the left wants to use the government to control their lives and the left in places like the US and Canada is not authoritarian just because they want the most basic government regulations on the practices that we can all see are screwing us over. The problem with your comment is that it acts as if both are operating within the same reality but we can see very fucking clearly that that simply isn’t true.
Conservative ideology is historically always authoritarian, it has to be. It is an ideology which exists to protect the system of a few people on top who own everything else, with a good bit of hating anyone who isn’t a straight, cis man because that helps get the voting base riled up.
A_Random_IdiotThe North Dakota and Tennesee officers involved in this need to be arrested, and convicted, for kidnapping, abuse of authority, elder abuse, and whatever fucking other charge they can be trumped up on.