About two years ago, amid mass protests directed at police abuses and racial injustice, the city of New Orleans banned the use of facial recognition by law enforcement. And now, amid a spike in crime, the city has reversed the ban.
It isn’t that new evidence has emerged concerning the efficacy of facial recognition technology; rather, the political landscape has changed, and New Orleans may have something valuable to tell us about what role biometric technology can be expected to play in policing cities across America going forward.
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