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Pregnant woman's arrest in carjacking case spurs call to end Detroit police facial recognition (apnews.com)

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[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Detroit detectives showed a photo lineup to the carjacking victim, who positively identified Woodruff.

Note only did facial recognition fail but so did the victim

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Victims misidentifying perpetrators happens all the time. Witness testimony about strangers is extremely unreliable.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

From what I have heard witness testimony in generally is extremely unreliable. Human memory sucks.

[–] FancyFeaster@lemmy.fail 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, had some dick try to smash into my house. Got a clear look at him and yelled at him in my angry voice and he fucked off. A month later police called me and asked for specific details about his look. I was like wtf? Maybe ask me when you arrived 5 minutes later and not now. I couldn’t remember shit.

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