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> “Let’s say you are on a traffic stop and we have someone in the car who we suspect may be wanted?” Benigno asked. “How would you go about investigating somebo
by lhorie 5y ago
> “Let’s say you are on a traffic stop and we have someone in the car who we suspect may be wanted?” Benigno asked. “How would you go about investigating somebody who you think may be trying to hide their apprehension and hide out who they are?”
How does this actually work? Presumably being wanted means that there's an arrest warrant or summons issued by a judge for a specific, previously identified person. Did the police somehow lose the person the first time?
Or is this some sort of James-Bond-like fantasy where one gets to scan a face and conveniently match a facial profile to some supposed well-known but elusive enemy of state from some intelligence database without any ambiguities?
- Clubber 5y ago>means that there's an arrest warrant or summons issued by a judge for a specific, previously identified person. I would imagine usually its because they skip bail or violate probation. They can issue a warrant if you don't pay a ticket, fine, etc.
- bonestamp2 5y ago> Did the police somehow lose the person the first time? They may not have had evidence to arrest them previously.
- lhorie 5y agoBut then the police somehow got said evidence after the person left, and they know the person's identity - but presumably not from the driver's licence (which would have included residential address) - and then they're hoping to stumble upon said person in a random traffic stop? When they even admit they can't realistically go after every speeder on the road? IMHO, if I had to guess at the probability of this scenario being realistically, my Occam razor sensor would say it's most likely a manufactured scenario that isn't actually grounded in reality. </two-cents>
- withinboredom 5y agoOr you get out on bail and go to Mexico instead of your trial.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoI'm going to ask if you've ever talked to an actual police officer, then. It's not uncommon for police to recognize people with active warrants in the car at a traffic stop. It turns out that antisocial behaviors are often correlated, and "Was speeding/swerving through the road" is a common behavior of people with warrants out. Most people speeding/swerving are having a bad day, but of people speeding/swerving, there's a much higher concentration of antisocial assholes than in an overall population sample.
- lhorie 5y agoI have (on more than a few occasions in fact). On one occasion I had noted the offender's car plate number and from that the police tracked the person down to their house (all of this within the span of just a couple of hours, mind you). What I'm questioning is that it seems far more reliable to follow the documentation trail electronically from something like a car plate/registration/drivers license back to a domicile than it is for a random cop to randomly stumble upon a person of interest and in such a way that only face recognition can help. If there's a reason to believe that a person needs to be brought in (e.g. an active homicide investigation and an uncooperative driver in a vehicle matching a profile), they would have to bring the person in as a suspect anyways and that would certainly motivate an innocent person to provide identification.
- bonestamp2 5y ago> the police somehow got said evidence after the person left, and they know the person's identity Yes. The police often show up after a crime has been committed and the suspect is long gone. If their investigation turns up clear evidence (a witness who knows the person, surveillance footage, etc) then they might be able to issue a warrant for that person.