man spends a week in jail (missing work) because cops are using facial regognition

[dead0man]

and the technology just ain't good enough

“What did I do?” Reid asked. The officer said he had two theft warrants out of Baton Rouge and Jefferson Parish, a district on the outskirts of New Orleans. Reid was confused; he said he had never been to Louisiana.

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Calogero <lawyer in Louisiana the family hired> found out that Reid was accused of the summer thefts of two Chanel purses and a brown Louis Vuitton bag, collectively worth almost $13,000, from Second Act, a consignment store on the outskirts of New Orleans. Calogero went to the store and talked to the owner, who showed him a still from a surveillance camera. He realized that one of the alleged fraudsters looked like Reid, but the man was heavier.

“The guy had big arms, and my client doesn’t,” Calogero said. A Jefferson Parish sheriff’s officer insisted it was a “positive match,” language that made Calogero believe that facial recognition technology had been used, and he spoke to the New Orleans news outlet NOLA.com about what he believed had happened.

A person with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to The New York Times that facial recognition technology had been used to identify Reid. Yet none of the documents used to arrest him disclosed that.

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Calogero found out that Reid was accused of the summer thefts of two Chanel purses and a brown Louis Vuitton bag, collectively worth almost $13,000, from Second Act, a consignment store on the outskirts of New Orleans. Calogero went to the store and talked to the owner, who showed him a still from a surveillance camera. He realized that one of the alleged fraudsters looked like Reid, but the man was heavier.

“The guy had big arms, and my client doesn’t,” Calogero said. A Jefferson Parish sheriff’s officer insisted it was a “positive match,” language that made Calogero believe that facial recognition technology had been used, and he spoke to the New Orleans news outlet NOLA.com about what he believed had happened.

A person with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to The New York Times that facial recognition technology had been used to identify Reid. Yet none of the documents used to arrest him disclosed that.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Clown world.

[RFK 2024]

Every time I read a dead0man thread I want to abolish the police

[dead0man]

Every time I read a dead0man thread I want to abolish the police

I go both ways on cops.  I defend them when they don't do anything wrong (Michael Brown for one) and I can't give them enough sh**t in other situations (Breonna Taylor).  It's a novel concept I wish more people would follow instead of knee jerk assuming the cops are almost always right or the cops are almost always wrong.  I probably start mostly anti-cop OPs and have mixed lean pro-cop posts in OPs started by other people.

[HillGoose]

big govt run amok!

[The Arizonan]

Every time I read a dead0man thread I want to abolish the police

I go both ways on cops.  I defend them when they don't do anything wrong (Michael Brown for one) and I can't give them enough sh**t in other situations (Breonna Taylor).  It's a novel concept I wish more people would follow instead of knee jerk assuming the cops are almost always right or the cops are almost always wrong.  I probably start mostly anti-cop OPs and have mixed lean pro-cop posts in OPs started by other people.

My opinion towards the police usually leans towards “Screw them!”, except the Capitol Hill Police Department.