This will achieve 3 things:
1. No reduction in crime
2. A huge chilling effect on the innocent population, further subduing people and paving the way for more authoritarianism.
3. Large amounts of profit for a private company
1. No reduction in crime
2. A huge chilling effect on the innocent population, further subduing people and paving the way for more authoritarianism.
3. Large amounts of profit for a private company
> The Met arrested 587 people in 2024 with the assistance of the live facial recognition cameras of which 424 were charged with offences.
Of those arrested, 58 were registered sex offenders in serious breach of their conditions and 38 have been charged.
How many of those arrests were possible ONLY by the use of these cameras?
The denominator very much matters here.
Do you really think there aren’t police forces that will use this in the furtherance of political goals?
https://apnews.com/article/nypd-george-floyd-protests-settle...
https://www.nyclu.org/press-release/face-lawsuit-nypd-ends-r...
They're all built on a flawed principle - that criminals don't have and will not use workarounds. In reality, only law-abiding people have no workarounds.