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UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A British police agency is defending its use of facial recognition technology at the June 2017 Champions League soccer final in Cardiff, Wales -- among several other instances -- saying that despite the system having a 92-percent false positive rate, "no one" has ever been arrested due to such an error. New data about the South Wales Police's use of the technology obtained by Wired UK and The Guardian through a public records request shows that of the 2,470 alerts from the facial recognition system, 2,297 were false positives. In other words, nine out of 10 times, the system erroneously flagged someone as being suspicious or worthy of arrest.
In a public statement, the SWP said that it has arrested "over 450" people as a result of its facial recognition efforts over the last nine months. "Of course, no facial recognition system is 100 percent accurate under all conditions. Technical issues are normal to all face recognition systems, which means false positives will continue to be a common problem for the foreseeable future," the police wrote. "However, since we introduced the facial recognition technology, no individual has been arrested where a false positive alert has led to an intervention and no members of the public have complained." The agency added that it is "very cognizant of concerns about privacy, and we have built in checks and balances into our methodology to make sure our approach is justified and balanced."
In a public statement, the SWP said that it has arrested "over 450" people as a result of its facial recognition efforts over the last nine months. "Of course, no facial recognition system is 100 percent accurate under all conditions. Technical issues are normal to all face recognition systems, which means false positives will continue to be a common problem for the foreseeable future," the police wrote. "However, since we introduced the facial recognition technology, no individual has been arrested where a false positive alert has led to an intervention and no members of the public have complained." The agency added that it is "very cognizant of concerns about privacy, and we have built in checks and balances into our methodology to make sure our approach is justified and balanced."
The problem is he's conflating the two facts of who commits more crime and why.
Black people commit more crimes in western nations because of a variety of reasons, the primary being socioeconomic status. Control for that factor across black populations and all of a sudden blackness isn't the thing to look for when predicting criminal behavior.
The problem with your "paint" theory or "blank slate" theory is that there are no successful prosperous black-run areas that are safe pleasant places to live. Including when blacks control all of the political and economic activity. Haiti is a good case in point. It was a productive agrarian economy with things like public sanitation and law enforcement while the French ran it. When the blacks intercepted a shipment of muskets, ammo and powder they overthrew the French and had their own version of the American Revolution (except they slaughtered every last French man, woman and child indiscriminately, not confining themselves to military targets like the Founding Fathers did against the Redcoats). Not long after it became a wasteland where people literally shit in the streets and contaminate their own drinking water.
If you want to understand why racial profiling happens then have a look at the facts for yourself. This includes nations that never oppressed black people.
What you call "racism", I call pattern recognition. Isn't it interesting that the black violent crime rate has gone UP ever since the Civil Rights Movement, affirmative action, and equal opportunity? One would think that if white oppression was the problem, reducing that would have a positive impact. It's as though Jim Crow served to protect whites from an inherent trait that our ancestors recognized. Tell me, did you really believe that white flight is caused by an aversion to melanin? No. It's caused by black violence. Black males are about 6-7% of the US population yet account for 51% of all solved murders. They are 12 times more likely to murder a white person than vice-versa. Still, mostly they murder other black males, but tell me, would you like to live in such a place? See the FBI crime stats for yourself.
Isn't it odd how South Africa has seen a serious economic decline and a simultaneous increase in crime ever since apartheid ended? Left to their own devices, this is what blacks create. The examples are numerous. These are facts. I actually would prefer it not be true, that it's just skin color, but it isn't and I refuse to lie to myself when it comes to choosing a safe prosperous place for my family. The person who does otherwise is either stupid or insane.