81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent

Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by jdietrich on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:37PM (#20366440)

I'm well aware of the cuts to legal aid and have lobbied against them. It is worth noting that the changes to legal aid have primarily affected civil law, with the effects on criminal law being primarily limited to means-testing for high earners and an 8.25% reduction in overall fees paid to legal practitioners.

Although it is clear that the cuts have significantly impacted family, immigration and welfare benefits cases, it is not clear that they have affected the fairness of the criminal legal system.

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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by hdfbdtbcdg on Saturday July 06, 2019 @01:43AM (#20368148)

Why should an innocent richer person have to use their life savings defending a charge of which they are innocent? (Of course the poorer person would be found guilty and sent to prison so the system is even more unfair for them.)

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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by DanBC on Saturday July 06, 2019 @01:52AM (#20368179)

They've definitely affected criminal law. The secret barrister's book describes it quite well.

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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by hdfbdtbcdg on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:39AM (#20368322)

8.25% is significant cut. I wonder if that is inflation adjusted?

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