The problem, says attorney Alex Coolman, was that Parra was five miles away from Golden Hill at the time of the crime, and the so-called hit from the license plate reader was captured before any police pursuit began.
“This Flock hit was obviously the wrong car, as it could not have been in both places simultaneously,” said Coolman, who represents Parra and the driver, 23-year-old Ariel Beltran.
Despite the signs pointing to it being a different Alfa Romeo, police arrested Beltran and Parra.
But it made some already rich people even more rich, and that’s what’s important here
How else are billionaires supposed to afford groceries? They struggle enough with just making rent.
How else are they supposed to afford healthcare? They aren’t going to be able to continue trying to become immortal if they don’t make an extra $200 billion this year.
Those license plate reader cameras would be upset if they could read
Yay, the future is AI powered pre-crime and humanoid police bots killing suspects
I hope he will make a fortune from any lawsuit against them.
Makes me wonder how many false positives and negatives this system has. If it were a diagnostic test, people would be talking about sensitivity and specificity. Same calculations apply here as well.
This sounds like police carelessness rather than a problem with the technology - they just decided to arrest the closest person the system could find who had the same rare car. The license plate reader did not malfunction.
Police are pretty universally careless. Any technology provided to them will be used carelessly. Because of this, ALPRs are defective by design, which is very much a technology problem.
Exactly. And a cop loves plausible deniability. “The software said this was the guy.”
