Yes, I know what a false positive rate is, hence the scare-quotes everywhere I misused "rate". And I'm (obviously) not accusing the field of statistics of not-t

Yes, I know what a false positive rate is, hence the scare-quotes everywhere I misused "rate". And I'm (obviously) not accusing the field of statistics of not-technically-lying; I'm accusing supporters of face recognition police tools of not-technically-lying. False positive rates are actively misleading when (trying to avoid) answering the question "given that this one event is reported positive, what is the chance that it actually is?".