re: NOPD's Secret Use of Real-Time Facial Recognition

Police incompetence is a real thing as they are generally hiring from the same failed demographic systems and New Orleans has atrocious systems throughout.

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Then let the people who live here vote on it. I live in New Orleans, about 3 miles from the jail actually, and I'm not comfortable with the use of this technology.

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i agree let them vote on it, that we agree on

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As someone who lives here, I don't think the average person's behaviors have changed due to the jailbreak. Everyone is still living their lives and enjoying the city.

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who said anythign about the jailbreak? Im talking overall crime and yea of course it alters behaviors.

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I don't think it does. Can it help capture fugitives? Sure. But like I said earlier, I sent a video of a group of kids stealing my car to the police and it didn't go anywhere.

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i said if used correctly

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following an investigation that shows the New Orleans Police Department has secretly used real-time face recognition technology to track and arrest residents without public oversight or City Council approval.

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Not sure you can call it secretly using the technology when Project NOLA posts it all over social media and even discusses when NOPD used the technology to make the arrest

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Are you claiming the government is constantly recording using every cell phone camera at all times?

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There appears to be a little sliver in truth in a lot of TV shows & movies. Maybe the show person of interest has some legitimacy here

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4cubbies

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By the way, your article tells you exactly what it does, and if you remove the ACLU's "all cops are racist" filter, then you'll understand.

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the city has relied on face recognition-enabled surveillance cameras through the “Project NOLA” private camera network. These cameras scan every face that passes by and send real-time alerts directly to officers’ phones when they detect a purported match to someone on a secretive, privately maintained watchlist.

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"Privately maintained watchlist" = criminal watch list. WaPo and ACLU's agenda is not a secret.

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According to The Washington Post, since 2023 the city has relied on face recognition-enabled surveillance cameras through the “Project NOLA” private camera network. These cameras scan every face that passes by and send real-time alerts directly to officers’ phones when they detect a purported match to someone on a secretive, privately maintained watchlist.

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Facial recognition is bad enough, but this is utter bullshite. This is just the government using private organizations to skirt the law and avoid FOIA requests. Conservatives who like personal freedom should be upset with this regardless of who the OP is.

Why are we giving this power to a private organization? Who is funding this organization? Why and how are people added to the list?

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Consider Randal Reid, for example. He was wrongfully arrested based on faulty Louisiana facial recognition technology, despite never having set foot in the state. The false match cost him his freedom, his dignity, and thousands of dollars in legal fees. That misidentification happened based on a still image run through a facial recognition search in an investigation; the Project NOLA real-time surveillance system supercharges the risks.

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This doesn't sound like the full story, but as written, it highlights more than facial recognition. To arrest him in another state, a warrant has to be issued. This means a judge issued a warrant strictly on this software. Why was there no interview before the arrest? Why was his alibi not checked? This is poor policing and judging on many levels.

I'm not against facial recognition per se, but it should be used responsibly. But look at FISA. People with authority tend to think it's their right to rule and judge instead of the privilege, duty, and responsibility it is. And they have no problem violating people's freedoms in pursuit of that "right."

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"Privately maintained watchlist" = criminal watch list.

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Aren't you curious who maintains this watchlist and what the criteria for inclusion on it is?

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This doesn't sound like the full story,

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ATLANTA (AP) — Randal Quran Reid was driving to his mother’s home the day after Thanksgiving last year when police pulled him over and arrested him on the side of a busy Georgia interstate.

He was wanted for crimes in Louisiana, they told him, before taking him to jail. Reid, who prefers to be identified as Quran, would spend the next several days locked up, trying to figure out how he could be a suspect in a state he says he had never visited.

A lawsuit filed this month blames the misuse of facial recognition technology by a sheriff’s detective in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, for his ordeal.

“I was confused and I was angry because I didn’t know what was going on,” Quran told The Associated Press. “They couldn’t give me any information outside of, ‘You’ve got to wait for Louisiana to come take you,’ and there was no timeline on that.”

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I don't know if this is "the full story" but it's something.

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It is different because a third party manages the cameras and footage

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These 3rd parties and granted immunity and insulated from false positives and the subsequent actions taken by the state (protected by Qualified Immunity) from any eroneous resulting data/results.