AI can be very useful, the problem here is humans trusting it to be accurate all the time.

In this case it should be used to narrow down results, but even then the police need to do their job. They need to do an actual investigation to gather evidence that they have the right person before even attempting to make am arrest.

Even removing AI from the picture entirely doesn't solve this problem. Just look at wrongful arrests that have been made simply because a wanted criminal has the exact same name as someone else.

In most cases, it’s a slam dunk win unless things went really wrong. (say a pandemic)

I think people are severely overestimating how much of an impact being an incumbent actually has with the final results. In smaller elections this definitely has a big impact, but in the entirety of the US history we've only had 27 presidents run for reelection, and 9 of them have lost.

That's a ~67% win rate for incumbent presidents, which isn't terrible, but isn't great either, and with a terrible sample size.

A very relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1747/

They're gonna have to build a wall to keep the water out!

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1747/

The painting is protected by glass, so no damage was done to the painting.

I read through way too many articles that failed to mention this important detail.

http://bbc.com/news/articles/cydd9ye77rmo

Civil asset forfeiture in the U.S.

We're supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty" but they get around this by saying that they're essentially accusing the money (or car/home or whatever) of being used for crime. Then they confiscate it and the only way to get it back is to go to court and prove that your money is innocent.

The fact that cash/possessions can be taken away from you at anytime by federal agents (or by police in almost every State) without having to follow it up with any sort of case to prove that a crime occurred is ridiculous. And on top of that you can't get the money back that you spent on attorney fees, so it's pointless to spend money on an attorney if what was taken was less than a few thousand dollars.

Most people don't know that this can happen or don't seem to care enough because, "it would never happen to me, right?"

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

From the article:

The cause of his death was not immediately clear.

Link inside this article, at least 94 people have died from sedatives when restrained by police from 2012 to 2021.

https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

Would be interesting to note how many people have been given sedatives at all when restrained by police... averaging 9-10 deaths/year should definitely cause us to rethink the viability and even legality of this practice.

It was bad enough when Hertz was reporting tons of active rental cars as stolen and getting over 100 people arrested: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/hertz-lawsuit-arrests-number-unsealed.html

Now we have to worry about Dealership loaners as well?!

Dispatchers should take note and start asking callers if the car is a rental/loaner... or in the case of Hertz, just ignoring their automated software reports entirely.

Income up to $50k untaxed.

I wouldn't set a hard number value for this. Make it based on how low income is defined, or something dynamic that can change over the years with inflation.

For example, in parts of California you could be making $80k and you would still be considered low income because of how expensive it is just to live there. After paying for housing, there won't be much left over.