Why Do Police Use Facial Recognition?

Facial recognition technology has been very questionable on a national level and potential misuse of the technology has raised questions among very many people. Facial recognition is used by the police around the world to identify subject. Some people think that the facial recognition technology goes against constitutionally protected rights. The software identifies people from the different “points” on their face. Facial recognition is a controversial issue among the law and people because of the potential misuse of the technology, meaning it’s being very badly viewed among large amounts of people. Facial recognition has been very popular making it accessible to more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies. But there is much concern of the unregulated use of the software and many fear that it could lead to potential misuse of the facial recognition software. In fact law enforcement agencies get calls two to three times a month from people claiming that the cops had taken pictures of them without their consent (Williams). Which is
Mr. Hanson was pulled over after a dispute with a man and had to sit on a curb and get pictures taken of him on an iPad which the images were then put through the facial recognition system stated, “They did not appear to be following the law,” stated Mr. Hanson (Williams). Which raises question of the misuse of the system and technology. The accuracy of the facial recognition technology has also raised many question about the system. In fact some studies have found that the FBI’s facial recognition software only has 85 percent accuracy and the error rate for the software is as high as 20 percent. The studies have also found that Facebook’s facial recognition technology has 97.25 percent accuracy (Williams). Which is really surprising since people would think the FBI’s technology would have a better accuracy rate than