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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci...::Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.

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[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

“As long as we can pin it on someone…”

[-] ULS@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

They just look for anything to make the case... Ruining lives. It's so dystopian and sad.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Been the someone. It's shit. ACAB.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Police metrics are governed by clearance stats, and pinning a crime on someone is enough for a case to count as "solved". If it goes to court, that's all they need, and it doesn't matter if the suspect is found guilty.

[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Just so very dumb.

[-] aaaantoine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There's no way this would have been admissable as evidence on its own.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

Heh, you wish. All it takes is one corrupt judge.

[-] hostops@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well they do have a DNA of a suspect. It may be enough to get court order of DNA extraction of a subject. And matching DNA is definitely enough to get someone behind bars.

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