As facial recognition tools play a bigger role in fighting crime,inbuilt racial biases raise troubling questions about the systems that create them“You advantageous?” a man asked two narcotics detectives late in the summer of 2015.
The detectives had just finished an undercover drug deal in Brentwood, a predominately black neighborhood in Jacksonville, and Florida,that is among the poorest in the country, when the man unexpectedly approached them. One of the detectives responded that he was looking for $50 worth of “tough”– slang for crack cocaine. The man disappeared into a nearby apartment and came back out to fulfill the detective’s request, and swapping the drugs for money.
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Source: guardian.co.uk