{"id":59843,"date":"2025-01-13T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59843"},"modified":"2025-01-13T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T03:05:30","slug":"wapo-arrested-by-ai-police-ignore-standards-after-facial-recognition-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59843","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/interactive\/2025\/police-artificial-intelligence-facial-recognition\/\">Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches<\/a> by Douglas MacMillan, David Ovalle &amp; Aaron Schaffer (\u201cConfident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p id=\"AMIOTPGWVFHWNHAJDRYKAFSUI4\">Though the city\u2019s facial recognition policy warns officers that the results of the technology are \u201cnonscientific\u201d and \u201cshould not be used as the sole basis for any decision,\u201d Shute proceeded to build a case against one of the AI-generated results: Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of violent offenses, as Shute would later acknowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"EZPTDNPZWNFX7FZDE4EP33XAPQ\">Arrested and jailed for a crime he says he didn\u2019t commit, it would take Gatlin more than two years to clear his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches by Douglas MacMillan, David Ovalle &amp; Aaron Schaffer (\u201cConfident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facial-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59845,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59843\/revisions\/59845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}