Personally I am pro facial recognition being used, and believe it is very necessary if police budgets are cut and patrols are reduced. We need a way to hold cri

Personally I am pro facial recognition being used, and believe it is very necessary if police budgets are cut and patrols are reduced. We need a way to hold criminals accountable and bring them to justice. Cameras with facial recognition let us identify their location and send police officers to apprehend criminals, instead of relying on the random chance that an officer spots someone while driving around and matches their face with a list of perps they've seen before. I haven't heard of any police departments using facial recognition as a definite match. All of them use human confirmation. So basically, the number of false positives does not matter - it's more that facial recognition reduces the total amount of data to a more manageable number that are scrutinized by human eyes. I don't know why people would be against this. Steps like this moratorium just seem like posturing or an overreaction. The recent policing incidents that have been in the news do not involve facial recognition and there is no reason to tie them in.