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If you had a system that picked the winning lottery numbers 19% of the time, you'd be a very wealthy man.

If I had a system where 19% of my coffee refills were toxic I’d be a dead man.

My point is, in some cases false positives are ok, in other cases they are not.

I believe ethics were thrown out the door once our industry adopted the distrupt everything attitude.

The purpose of the system is to aid police in finding people on a wanted list. On average someone using this system only needs to look at 5 photos to spot someone, whereas without it they would need to look at thousands. The police are probably quite satisfied with the system's 19% hit rate.

>>The police are probably quite satisfied with the system's 19% hit rate.

lol, I am sure the police are, we as a society however should not be allowing the police to dictate what is and is not a "success". They have a MASSIVE conflict of interest here

The police would be happy with a 1% or even less hit rate

Ah but this is government procurement, so the fact its running at all makes it a success, and only 2 years late and 3x over budget.