Today, law enforcement officers can use mobile devices to capture face recognition-ready photographs of people they stop on the street; surveillance cameras boast real-time face scanning and identification capabilities; and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have access to hundreds of millions of images of faces of law-abiding Americans.
On the horizon, law enforcement would like to use face recognition with body-worn cameras, to identify people in the dark, to match a person to a police sketch, or even to construct an image of a person’s face from a small sample of their DNA.
In this video that we see an officer tells the viewers why they use facial recognition. Youtube Facial Recognition. One good gift about cell phones and technology now a days it can help law enforcement speed up the process of tracking down a criminal and putting them behind bars.
According back to the article listed about their is a downside to facial recognition.
However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse. This has led to the development of unproven, inaccurate systems that will impinge on constitutional rights and disproportionately impact people of color.
Finally, Facial technology is advancing and is helping the law to track down criminals but must keep advancing and improving. Also officers must remember citizens rights and to not over step their bounds on this impressive technology. To learn more on this go to Risks of Facial Recognition.
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