In June’s edition of Policing Insight, AIPAS co-investigator Fraser Sampson, Professor in Governance and National Security at CENTRIC, discusses the topic of the increasing use of Facial Recognition in policing and how the absence of legislation and legal challenges often shape the foundation for its use, leading to risks and a lack of accountability.
The article states: “We end up allowing litigation to write policy. Any lawyer will tell you that litigation is probably the most expensive, least predictable, and least flexible way of deriving policy. All it does actually – whether win, lose or draw – is undermine public confidence if they constantly see police chiefs being brought into court.”
You can read it in full here: https://policinginsight.com/reports/facing-the-future-the-rise-of-facial-recognition-in-policing/
