Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.
Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.
Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.
We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…
But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.
A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.
We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.
We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.
We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.
AI is shit.
Facial recognition is shit.
But none of that was really the issue here:
Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.
We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…
But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.
A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.
We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.
We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.
We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.
Do politicians still have your faith?
This is like asking if you have faith in plumbers…
But no, I don’t have “faith” in anyone or anything.
That’s why I vote and advocate for others to do so, because lots of informed voters mitigates the threats from bad politicians.