So the UK police, under huge budgetary pressures (there are 21,000 less police than 7 years ago at the start of "the cuts" ) were duped into investing in an exp

So the UK police, under huge budgetary pressures (there are 21,000 less police than 7 years ago at the start of "the cuts" ) were duped into investing in an expensive technology that promised to save them resources in catching criminals. The pressure to get results overrode common-sense and concerns about civil-liberties. A bit like the DNA "fingerprint" craze which is now unraveling with a number of convictions being challenged. If it had been treated from the beginning as corroborating evidence, rather than The Answer, this would never have happened I am amazed every day at work that everyone expects technology to be a "silver-bullet", and are outraged if they still have to do anything themselves