Again there is a human in the loop to validate a potential match, before officers get dispatched. And if the dispatcher doesn't do it, we can easily just have t

Again there is a human in the loop to validate a potential match, before officers get dispatched. And if the dispatcher doesn't do it, we can easily just have the police officer responding to validate the match between the surveillance photo and a known photo of the suspect. Humans already have a false positive rate as part of existing policing procedures, and facial recognition doesn’t make the rate worse as long as it retains a human validating the AI’s match. Also, almost every state has a process to expunge arrests even IF you were convicted (of something minor). As for why I’m confident about net improvement - it’s because the amount of true positive arrests (and subsequent convictions) will be far greater than false positive arrests. Therefore relative to the status quo it’ll be a net positive of criminals facing consequences, victims being compensated or getting closure, subsequent reduction in crime through deterrence, etc.