Santa Cruz Bans "Pre-Crime," Facial Recognition Brings Wrongful Arrest
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by technologist Chris Garaffa to talk about the move by the government of Santa Cruz, California to become the first city in the country to ban Minority Report-style "predictive policing," why decisions to reevaluate some of the most controversial police practices represent a victory for the growing Movement for Black Lives, and how the first reported wrongful arrest based on an computer misidentification demonstrates the dangers of police usage of AI and facial recognition software.