<cynical thought> The false positive paradox rests on the relative magnitude of the false positive rate and the incidence rate. The numbers in the article revea

<cynical thought> The false positive paradox rests on the relative magnitude of the false positive rate and the incidence rate. The numbers in the article reveal a false positive rate of 91%. So long as the police assumption is that somewhere around 91% of the population are criminals, that paradox will not limit the effectiveness of a technology that's wrong 10 times as often as it's right...