an asteroid, estimated to be between a0 and 90 metres wide passed harmlessly between the orbits of the earth and the moon this evening in what astronomers are calling a once in a decade event. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, ourworld: facial recognition fighting crime? across america, police are increasingly using facial recognition technology to fight crime. speaks spanish. can you open the door? we want law enforcement to have more tools at our disposal, not less. images can be fed into a database to search for matches and track people down. but critics argue the use of this technology is opaque and could be inaccurate. if law enforcement knows how accurate that is, how come they are fighting so hard to keep that information from us when we ask for it? why won t they share it? i m james clayton, and i m investigating whether the police should be using this controversial tech. the technology itself is harmful. it is too danger
my client got arrested. on the day of the robbery, caitlin s client had an alibi. his son was born that day. he was at the hospital. the birth happened within a few hours of the robbery, so not at the exact same time, but in order to believe that you had the right person, you have to believe that on the way to the birth of his child, my client stopped at a big box store to steal a sixpack of socks and then immediately went to the hospital for the birth of his child. itjust wasn t him, he did not do it. caitlin s client was sent to jail for five months awaiting trial. he agreed to plead guilty so that he could be released. today, he still maintains his innocence. the only way for him to get out and get home to his newborn baby was to take a plea, and that s exactly what he ultimately did. it s also a way for the police and the prosecutors not to really have to investigate or sit with the fact that
officer in the us. what we learned was that shortly after this theft happened, a detective from nypd went and met with the loss prevention officer and said, we want to see the surveillance, and took a screen grab of the face of the person that stole the socks, and the detective told the officer we re going to put this in facial recognition software. so, essentially, when i got was a piece of paper that had a screenshot from a surveillance lens and my client s mugshot that said possible match . they don t do a photo line up, they don t do any kind of better identification procedure, theyjust shoot him a text and say, is this the guy? so at this point, imagine you are the loss prevention officer, he says, yes, that s the guy, but of course he did you d have to be telling the detective your hi tech software does not work, that s not the person, it is such a suggestive way to do the id. shortly after that,
and there are many other systems in use. but what happens when it doesn t work? in 2018, this man walked into a shop in new york and stole some socks before appearing to wave box cutters at a member of staff. caitlinjacklin is the lawyer for the man the police believed was the perpetrator. he wants to remain anonymous, but has agreed for caitlin to speak out on his behalf. because it was a theft plus a weapon, it was charged as first degree robbery. that means if you are convicted of it it is a pretty hefty prison sentence, my client would have been looking at between 5 25 years for essentially stealing six socks. the main witness was a security guard, sometimes referred to as a loss prevention
officer in the us. what we learned was shortly after the theft happened, a detective from nypd went and met with the loss prevention officer and said he wanted to see the surveillance, and took a screen grab of the face of the person that stole the socks, and the detective told the officer we re going to put this in facial recognition software. so, essentially, when i got was a piece of paper that had a screenshot from a surveillance lens and my client s mugshot that said possible match . they don t do a photo line up, they don t do any kind of better identification procedure, theyjust shoot him a text and say, is this the guy? so at this point, imagine you are the loss prevention officer, he says, yes, that s the guy, but of course he did