ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAfter 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positiveslailluminator.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up11.41Karrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaremski@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months 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-up4·11 months agoNew York City has a ratio of 1:166
minus-squareMachinist3359@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months 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…