Introduction
In criminal justice, one of the most important weapons that law enforcement agencies use to fight the criminals is technology. We live in an era of technology where law enforcement can be a step ahead of the criminals. One groundbreaking weapon they use is Facial Recognition. I think it is an important criminal justice issue that criminals are sometimes a step ahead of law enforcement. But with this. Technology, law enforcement can be a step ahead of them
What is Facial Recognition, and What Does It Do?
Facial recognition is under the category of biometrics. Biometrics is a wide- ranging technology. It measures people 's traits like faces and body movements. It is surprising how facial recognition works. There are a lot of software …show more content…
This is a significant advantage for law enforcement because a suspect can be identified as being in a particular location by using facial recognition. Another advantage of facial recognition technology is that it “is already in use under controlled situations. For example, when travelers approach border police for a travel document check, facial biometrics can easily check travel documents and watch lists, providing passport control officers an opportunity to spend more time on higher risk travelers” (Hess 2010 Prevention para 3). Facial recognition plays a big role in law enforcement and at airports and borders in order to track suspects and prevent them …show more content…
The advantages and disadvantages of facial recognition can easily be identified, but as time goes on, the more accurate and thus more useful facial recognition will become.
On April 15, 2013, there was a terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, during the Boston Marathon. The Boston police tried to use facial recognition, but, unfortunately, the facial recognition software did not recognize the suspects. Alleged perpetrators Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were both in the database. Despite having an array of photos of the bombers, the system could not come up with a match. Many people think life is like what they see on TV shows, but this is real life. Procedures take time, and one of the reasons why facial recognition software could not identify the brothers was because “facial recognition systems can have limited utility when a grainy, low-resolution image captured at a distance from a cell phone camera or surveillance video is compared with a known, high-quality image.” ( Farivar, 2013, Para 3 ) I believe they were too far away from the cameras for facial recognition to work. The Boston police commissioner Edward Davis said to the journalists from the Washington Post
In criminal justice, one of the most important weapons that law enforcement agencies use to fight the criminals is technology. We live in an era of technology where law enforcement can be a step ahead of the criminals. One groundbreaking weapon they use is Facial Recognition. I think it is an important criminal justice issue that criminals are sometimes a step ahead of law enforcement. But with this. Technology, law enforcement can be a step ahead of them
What is Facial Recognition, and What Does It Do?
Facial recognition is under the category of biometrics. Biometrics is a wide- ranging technology. It measures people 's traits like faces and body movements. It is surprising how facial recognition works. There are a lot of software …show more content…
This is a significant advantage for law enforcement because a suspect can be identified as being in a particular location by using facial recognition. Another advantage of facial recognition technology is that it “is already in use under controlled situations. For example, when travelers approach border police for a travel document check, facial biometrics can easily check travel documents and watch lists, providing passport control officers an opportunity to spend more time on higher risk travelers” (Hess 2010 Prevention para 3). Facial recognition plays a big role in law enforcement and at airports and borders in order to track suspects and prevent them …show more content…
The advantages and disadvantages of facial recognition can easily be identified, but as time goes on, the more accurate and thus more useful facial recognition will become.
On April 15, 2013, there was a terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, during the Boston Marathon. The Boston police tried to use facial recognition, but, unfortunately, the facial recognition software did not recognize the suspects. Alleged perpetrators Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were both in the database. Despite having an array of photos of the bombers, the system could not come up with a match. Many people think life is like what they see on TV shows, but this is real life. Procedures take time, and one of the reasons why facial recognition software could not identify the brothers was because “facial recognition systems can have limited utility when a grainy, low-resolution image captured at a distance from a cell phone camera or surveillance video is compared with a known, high-quality image.” ( Farivar, 2013, Para 3 ) I believe they were too far away from the cameras for facial recognition to work. The Boston police commissioner Edward Davis said to the journalists from the Washington Post