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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 403 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I get the impression that the cops are about to hate facial recognition all of the sudden, for no particular reason

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 176 points 1 week ago (25 children)

There's a reason ICE conceal their faces.

They know what they're doing is wrong and don't want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cameras. They fucking hate body cameras. When it clears them of wrongdoing, they have the video ready. When they 'accidentally' shoot a guy nine times in the back of the head, video seems to be missing.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

easily solvable problem: losing the footage is indication of guilt. you shoot someone, you better have it ready. it malfunctioned, better have a partner who has theirs ready. if no one has footage to clear you, it's used as evidence of guilt.

of course pussy ass lawmakers will never do that.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I believe having lack of evidence being the evidence for a crime is problematic, but it sure is evidence enough that they aren't fit for their job and they should immediately lose it. Everyone Including the supervisor who failed to run the team properly.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that "all of the sudden," while at present a nonstandard variant of "all of a sudden," has valid history.

And of course it doesn't matter in this casual context!

But in formal writing, in this era, using "a" will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (9 children)

"All of the sudden" is only valid because it's so commonly (incorrectly) used. Much as it annoys me, that's just how language works.

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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 155 points 1 week ago
[–] teft@lemmy.world 150 points 1 week ago
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 137 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If only CSI enhancing worked in real life, we could out the asshole on the far left.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

far left

From his PoV, he's actually standing on the far-right. Fitting lol

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 121 points 1 week ago
[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 117 points 1 week ago

This is ILLEGAL when Working Class people Do It!

-Chuck Schumer at Some Point probably!

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 93 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Is it me or is LA the only part of America doing anything resembling resistance?

[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think it's mainly LA that is seeing a large invasion of federal forces

[–] match@pawb.social 30 points 1 week ago

For the moment

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, it’s happening everywhere. But I’ve also seen some significant resistance happening in other cities like NYC, Newark, Portland, Chicago, Seattle, SF, etc.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 78 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Should be easy to beat this and not worry about being identified and sued.

I know it will be hard guys, but how about:

"Don't be a power tripping asshole"

You see people holding signs?

Don't be a power tripping asshole and shoot tear gas, pepper shot, beat people, and shoot non-lethal rounds at them.

You see people marching?

Don't be a power tripping asshole and shoot tear gas, pepper shot, beat people, and shoot non-lethal rounds at them.

You see reporters documenting it all?

Don't be a power tripping asshole and shoot tear gas, pepper shot, beat people, and shoot non-lethal rounds at them.

"Don't be a power tripping asshole."

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Also, “Don’t violate people’s constitutional rights, which you must have at least tangentially sworn to protect and uphold.” 🤷‍♂️

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[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

"You hear them boys?! We are not to humiliate those idiots! LIVE ROUNDS BOYS!"

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[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (9 children)

nice.

Is there one for ice too?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also what about cops outside of the LAPD? This app only useful if it works on any cop.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lmao let's see how long it takes them to shut this down

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (19 children)

What are they so afraid of? They're public servants, so they should be publicly identifiable. If they don't like it, get off the government payroll

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago

Police the police

[–] StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 week ago

Putting it out there for someone to do this for cops in the UK. I can't run infrastructure but the cops terrorise out local community and constantly refuse to identify themselves/turn off their badge cam.

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (40 children)

I agree with that the abusive cops and ice is insane in the US, and it should be stopped. I also believe that the US is a corrupt nation in nearly every place of the government and surrounding instances.

But a question surround this, what if the US wasn't corrupt and the judges would actually follow the law (juries wouldn't be able to exist for most cases) and hypothetical if the US had privacy laws for everything besides businesses wouldn't this be the same punishable offence that would protect citizens?

In GDPR countries (among others) nobody is allowed to do something like this with face recognition because the law works for everybody. (Some people are trying to destroy this in some countries, though).

At the same time, if the government is allowed to use facial recognition and other anti-privacy measures to identify people where there is no ground to, then why shouldn't the people be able to do that?

Edit: I am not from the US and my look on life and trias political situations is different than what the fuck is happening in the US

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

A good time to ask this question after it's used for good and we have politicians in office who aren't against the will of the people, not before

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In GDPR countries (among others) nobody is allowed to do something like this with face recognition because the law works for everybody.

IDK the specifics of GDPR (and GDPR is relatively new, so it will continue to evolve for some time...)

In my view: the police are public servants, salaries and pensions paid by taxes. They have voluntarily chosen to serve as public servants. Whole hosts of studies show that police who are actively involved with the communities they police, seeing, being seen, being known by the neighborhoods they work in, those police are more effective at preventing crime, defusing domestic disputes, etc. than faceless thugs with batons and guns who only show up when they are going to use their arrest powers to shut down whatever is going on.

If I were to write "my version" of the GDPR that I think the US should enact, there would be clear exceptions for public servants, including police and politicians. Now, you can get into the whole issue of "undercover cops" which is clearly analogous to "secret police" which may be a necessary evil for some circumstances, but that's not what is going on with OP's website. OP is providing a tool to compare photos to a public database of photographs of public servants - not undercover cops. By the way: performance is spec'ed at 1 to 3 seconds per photo comparison, so 9000 photos might take 9000-27000 seconds to compare, that's 2.5 to 7.5 hours to run one photo search.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

Should be the ice agents too

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