ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAfter 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positiveslailluminator.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1438arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1429arrow-down1external-linkAfter 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positiveslailluminator.comShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square64fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squaremski@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoJust checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it’s around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed. Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.
minus-squareSangriaFerret@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoNew York City has a ratio of 1:166
minus-squareMachinist3359@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd NYC is wildly over-policed. I swear, some people have never met a societal problem they didn’t want to throw a cop at. Meanwhile we have more cops and prisoners per Capita than most of the world, funny how that works…
Just checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it’s around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed.
Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.
New York City has a ratio of 1:166
And NYC is wildly over-policed.
I swear, some people have never met a societal problem they didn’t want to throw a cop at. Meanwhile we have more cops and prisoners per Capita than most of the world, funny how that works…