The police cover their faces, and make face coverings illegal. In the past, this has worked very well; the main change now is that we have a social expectation

The police cover their faces, and make face coverings illegal. In the past, this has worked very well; the main change now is that we have a social expectation that law-abiding folks will wear face coverings, and in even more of an inversion, folks without face coverings are suspect. In neither situation would facial recognition systems make things better for the populace.