It's fascinating how sample size differs based on who wants what policy to be enacted. What are the false arrest rates due to people just looking at a picture and thinking "That's the one"?
It's fascinating how sample size differs based on who wants what policy to be enacted. What are the false arrest rates due to people just looking at a picture and thinking "That's the one"?
Furthermore, with a large black population like Baltimore, if they mostly ran the software on black people, then yeah the false IDs will also be mostly black people.
I don't want to let the cops off the hook here. The previous commenter suggested a mechanically plausible way: "decent software used in a racist way" would have the above problem
If you aren't aware of the specifics, research "qualified immunity" , a legal doctrine that was not passed into law but invented by the courts to shield police from the consequences of violating your civil rights.