'You're wasting money on racist astrology for cops.'
An image of a suspect, created from a sample of his DNA? It sounds like dystopian sci-fi, but experts say it's even worse — it's tech that cops are already rolling out, even though it almost certainly doesn't work.
Rutherford is almost certainly right. The EPS purchased the tech, dubbed Snapshot, from a company called Parabon NanoLabs, which" You know, because that's what everyone wants cops to do — whip up a would-be "criminal" using what's essentially an Ancestry.com profile, so they can get'er done quick by... what? Investigating anyone who might match that "description?" Got it.
Again, the science just doesn't check out well enough for any of these generated description to be used in good faith. As Rutherford noted, it's impossible to accurately gauge most physical characteristics — skin color included — from a phenotype.
"Any time we use a new technology — especially one that does raise concerns about profiling of a marginalized group — we cannot be careful enough in how we validate these efforts and fully, transparently consider the risks," he continued. "We have heard legitimate external criticism and we have done our own gut checks internally to determine whether we got the balance right — and, as a leader, I don't think I did.
For now, the tech seems like a dead end generator, not to mention a pseudoscientific dragnet that get innocent people caught in the crossfire.
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