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Facial recognition technology shouldn't be dismissed as a useful crime-fighting tool

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According to a Washington Post article by Doug MacMillan, for two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate municipal guardrails around use of the technology. UNO Professor & NOPD Watchdog Dr. Skip Gallagher said, "This was being used almost exclusively in the 8th District (French Quarter). I've talked to multiple officers in other Districts and they had no part in this and, for the most part, had no idea that this existed." Skip spoke to Doug MacMillan, who wrote the piece, and he said he went to great lengths to speak to any of the city council members, and none would speak to him. Dr. Gallagher joins Newell to talk about it.
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According to a Washington Post article by Doug MacMillan, for two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate municipal guardrails around use of the technology. UNO Professor & NOPD Watchdog Dr. Skip Gallagher said, "This was being used almost exclusively in the 8th District (French Quarter). I've talked to multiple officers in other Districts and they had no part in this and, for the most part, had no idea that this existed." Skip spoke to Doug MacMillan, who wrote the piece, and he said he went to great lengths to speak to any of the city council members, and none would speak to him. Dr. Gallagher joins Newell to talk about it.
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