New Orleans police use of facial recognition nets zero arrests in nine months - Louisiana Illuminator
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Facial recognition technology was used by the New Orleans Police Department only 13 times from Oct. 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023.
  • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    1:100 seems insane. I live in a community of 10,000 people, and we don’t have anything close to 100 people working in the RCMP. MAYBE 20-30, including support

    • mski@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Just checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it’s around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed.

      Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.

        • Machinist3359@kbin.social
          3·
          11 months ago

          And NYC is wildly over-policed.

          I swear, some people have never met a societal problem they didn’t want to throw a cop at. Meanwhile we have more cops and prisoners per Capita than most of the world, funny how that works…