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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, why not just write-off the technology as unreliable and move on? Even with the atrocious false positive rate, you would have still expected more than 15 hits in 9 months. This tech has got to be expensive and even the potential ROI on this, if it ever works at all, is very not worth it.

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

All 15 of the false positives were black people. That's why they're keeping it.