I don't see how this is a problem, unless the police are feeding it blurry surveillance camera footage then claiming "success, it matched person X", which I dou

I don't see how this is a problem, unless the police are feeding it blurry surveillance camera footage then claiming "success, it matched person X", which I doubt, as it would fall apart at the smallest of questioning. For the most part, this sort of article makes things seem like there will be some sort of racial-based, dystopian police future where automated algorithms will target people and have them put into jail. I don't see that happening in the near future at all. The police departments' personnel currently using this probably LOOK at the matches and only then make a further call. Just like I would assume AFIS fingerprint hit results are double-checked by skilled operators after matching to reduce false-positives.