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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
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[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1:100 seems insane. I live in a community of 10,000 people, and we don't have anything close to 100 people working in the RCMP. MAYBE 20-30, including support

[–] mski@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it's around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed.

Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.

[–] SangriaFerret@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New York City has a ratio of 1:166

[–] Machinist3359@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

And NYC is wildly over-policed.

I swear, some people have never met a societal problem they didn't want to throw a cop at. Meanwhile we have more cops and prisoners per Capita than most of the world, funny how that works...