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Re:San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by munic... by guelo on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @08:07PM (#19915115)
There's no need to create the matrix in the name of security. Crime is historically low. Police have been able to do their jobs without this tool. Once the police have the tools it will be abused. Everytime. Stop it.
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Re:San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by munic... by justchilly on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:13PM (#19915486)
Crime is historically high in SF. Obvious to anyone that has lived in Sf for a while.

Source 1) https://hoodline.com/2019/04/crime-is-on-the-rise-in-san-fra...

Source 1b) https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

Source 2) home burgled twice so far in 2019

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Re:San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by munic... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:48PM (#19915990)
I bet if you included the 70s and 80s it wouldn’t be the historic high.

Property crimes are obviously way up even if violent crimes aren’t so much.

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