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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by bboygravity on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:58AM (#44899356)
Yeah, I mean if the UK is covering up and not counting 1000's of underaged girls being raped (with some police literally participating in the rape) the statistics are bound to look better than they are in reality.

Having said that, I don't think the surveillance state they're setting up even has the intent to change any of that.

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by youngtaff on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:45AM (#44899751)
I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the Daily Mail or that comes out of Farage or Yaxley-Lennon‘s mouth
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by bondarchuk on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:51AM (#44899791)
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by achempion on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:42AM (#44900278)
Thanks for posting the link, can't believe it was happening in 2016

> The police collected bags of clothes the girl had saved as evidence, but lost them two days later. The family was sent £140 compensation for the clothes and advised to drop the case.

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by miningape on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:06AM (#44899919)
"I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the BBC or that comes out of Starmer or Blair's mouth."

How about instead of attacking credentials we attack the arguments, you know, with evidence? Or, if your best defence is saying "your ideas/evidence come from unsavoury sources (to me)" maybe your positions are more reflective of your own biases than reality.

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by youngtaff on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:23PM (#44905229)
The poster implied there is an active cover up whereas the case went to court, was prosecuted and became the subject of a judge led enquiry

The accusation that immigrant men from Muslim backgrounds are sex offenders is a well worn trope pushed by the far right and people like Farage and Yaxley-Lennon

If you actually look at crime statistics in the UK sex offenders, including grooming gangs are overwhelming white men — if you look closer you often find that a reasonable proportion of people on the far-right have convictions for sex offences

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by youngtaff on Friday August 15, 2025 @09:25AM (#44912141)
And if you want statistics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/grooming-gangs...

3.7% of sexual abuse cases involved group based abuse

Asian or British Asian people account for 5% of offenders while making up 9% of the British populatiin