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Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges

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Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges::A 61-year-old man alleges that a facial recognition algorithm used a mugshot from the 1980s to ID him in a crime he didn't commit.

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- Due to the bail system, jail also serves as punishment for being poor.
  
  "Wait, it's class warfare... all the way down!?!"
  "Always has been"
- I find this sentiment… a bit wishy washy.
  When someone bad goes to prison it’s “I hope he gets his ass beat”, when someone innocent goes to prison it’s “how could they let this happen??”
  
  I don't want anyone beaten up in gaol.
  
  I don't want anyone getting raped in prison.
  
  Do you understand "nobody“?
  
  Most people saying anything around those lines doesn’t actually care about justice or doing the right thing, they just want someone to come to harm, and it not be their fault or responsibility.
  It’s like anonymity online. As long as they aren’t directly involved they are fine with it.
  
  Weird. I've seen so many calls for this or that to someone while in jail and just get absolutely roasted in the comments.
  
  This is the second time this week I've come across someone equating two very different stances held by people in the same group to everyone in the group holding both opinions
  A friendly reminder that groups aren't real, they're in our heads - every group is just a bunch of individual people.
I don't care if the facial recognition worked exactly as it was supposed to, with 100% accuracy (I know, we are in fantasy land here, but stay with this hypothetical), WTF? Nobody in jail deserves that. Also I'm thinking, does everyone who goes to that jail get beat up and gang raped? It just makes news if it's the "wrong" guy?
- There's a great show on Netflix called '60 days in'. It's silly and exploitative on the surface but read between the lines and you will learn a lot about the justice system in US. It's basically designed to dehumanize and torture people with no presumption of innocence or any safeguards. The only goal is to punish as many people as possible. That's what the society expects from it and people that run it are happy to deliver.
  
  This is why I personally don't believe in jail/prison. Rehabilitation, yes. Jail or prison? No. I'm no professional but I feel as though I have seen countless studies about how our prison system is a failure and how all it does is set people up to come back. That doesn't even touch on private prisons and their financial incentives to get people back into the system.
It's like America wants to create terrorists.
- About that
- They actually do. It perpetuates profits for the MIC.
  
  It's also a good way to keep us proles in line
- He will have some cash to fund it.
- They'll probably join forces with Mexican Joker.
10M isn't enough for this shit...
- No amount of money is.
  
  The courts will run with this logic and award him nothing.
I'm not surprised to hear this took place in Texas. Southerners seem to see jail and prison violence as a feature rather than an issue.
Okay, but why are the store and the loss prevention agencies the ones being sued? Not saying they are 100% innocent, but isn't the real blame here on the law enforcement system, for jailing someone based on such lousy evidence and for allowing such things to happen in jail?
- Because thats not a lawsuit you win. The fact that law enforcement can arrest you on almost nothing is a feature of the system not a bug. They can cuff you for no reason and as soon as your in cuffs you're presumed to be a danger and guilty, as policy. They're not a court they have no obligation to assume anyone is innocent.
  
  If it was proven he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment while incarcerated, you absolutely can sue for that and you can win.
Ah, the good'ol Jail and Rape
These pseudo identification systems have been around in police TV shows for 40 years, so of course a nobody in front of a system that says "there is a match" will get excited about it and won't change his mind. Unless it is a blonde young lady or grey haired old caucasian, the police won't have second thoughts either. What a fucked up reality
Doesn't an arrest warrant need to be signed off by someone who looks for actual police work? "The store said it's this guy" would seem to fall short.
- You’re assuming no judge has ever rubber stamped a warrant without reading it?…

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