When security footage at a local McDonald’s captured a man trying to get a young, unaccompanied girl to leave with him, Jacksonville Beach police relied on software that flagged Robert Dillon as a 93 per cent match for the suspect.
93% doesn’t even sound like a particularly good match. But I’m sure the cops don’t care whether they get the right person, as long as they get someone.
93% is horrible for any type of classification. 99.8% should be the minimum for questioning. Anything below that is absolute garbage. I could probably be convinced on a 3% error bar so 96%-97%
Always been that way
93% sure is like an additional 40% than what they were use to operating on
…And they still got it wrong
Hopefully the more this keeps happening, the more people who say they have nothing to hide start to understand why privacy is important.
It’s funny how the whole “I’ve got nothing to hide” crowd wears pants and closes the door when they shit.
The people who say that will still say that, right up until it happens to THEM.
And they’ll say things like “if he has nothing to hide, then he will be cleared in no time!” and not bother looking into it any further. They don’t see that the entire case was mishandled from the start, the trial was bungled, the jury stacked, and the charges insanely inflated to try and make the victim take a plea deal.
Even if they did see it, they’ll dismiss it as “it’s just one case”
I usually reply with “If you have nothing to hide then give me your phone”
Going through the process of suing someone or something must be a huge pain-in-the-arse but when it’s pretty much gonna be a guaranteed huge payday, I say congrats to him, he hit a jackpot! Or should I say this jackpot hit HIM.
There’s limits to actual payouts in this kind of thing. Often even the judges don’t know/care.
The lawsuit notes that the investigator was fully aware Dillon lived hundreds of miles away, meaning it would have been physically impossible for him to be a regular customer at that branch.
It’s almost like they’re just trying to push people through the system by whatever means they can get away with and don’t actually care whether they committed the crime. Obviously these tools should be taken away from them, but even with that they still aren’t going to do a good job.
It’s almost like the police need to be abolished and replaced by totally new organizations for public safety.
They really don’t look anything alike. 93% is a low number in the scope of things as well, I don’t know what the detectives were thinking.
What’s worse is that these systems consistently under perform with minorities so the problem is probably a lot more widespread.
Shocking?
