https://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Using_technology_to_identify_police_who_refuse_to_identify_themselves&feed=atom&action=historyUsing technology to identify police who refuse to identify themselves - Revision history2024-03-28T08:58:12ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1https://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Using_technology_to_identify_police_who_refuse_to_identify_themselves&diff=2974&oldid=prevGunner: Created page with "Using technology to identify police who refuse to identify themselves Attending anti-police brutality protests in Portland, police weren't displaying badge numbers Eventually..."2020-11-28T23:47:41Z<p>Created page with "Using technology to identify police who refuse to identify themselves Attending anti-police brutality protests in Portland, police weren't displaying badge numbers Eventually..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Using technology to identify police who refuse to identify themselves<br />
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Attending anti-police brutality protests in Portland, police weren't displaying badge numbers<br />
Eventually created a "helmet number" which isn't linked to their badge number or name<br />
Legal teams filed public info requests and were given a convoluted process.<br />
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Lucy Parsons Labs built a tool that let people upload images of police/identify police in images.<br />
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A volunteer came along with experience with Amazon facial recognition tools and built a machine learning tool to help match pictures to police.<br />
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Volunteers get additional data from social media<br />
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The machine learning "game" asks viewers reCAPTCHA-like questions - e.g. "Are there law enforcement officers in this picture?"<br />
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Can upload an image of a police officer and it will tell you the probability that it's one of the officers in the database based on facial recognition tools<br />
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Facial recognition software stack - has been developed twice, once with Amazon (AWS) tools and once with Google tools. A bunch of serverless node.js tools, lots of gluing together existing tools more than writing lots of code. Uses Docker for deployment.<br />
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Ways to help:<br />
* Documentation of the deployment process is weak.<br />
* Ideally the online database tools would sync to a shared spreadsheet<br />
* More flexibility in mechanisms to add new searchable fields to handle PD-specific identity mechanisms<br />
* Wrote manual scripts to scrape photos from various websites<br />
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Currently developing a mobile app to allow upload photos directly from phone.<br />
Considering an augmented reality app that lets you hold up a phone and overlay an identification on an officer.<br />
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Uses:<br />
* Can't file an Internal Review Board complaint without knowing the identity of the officer<br />
* Can get charges dropped when you can prove the arresting officer on the paperwork isn't the person who made the arrest<br />
* Lawsuits<br />
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Portland PD generally uses fake names in LinkedIn/Facebook - this data is generally kept separate out of legal concerns<br />
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Don't publish out-of-uniform photos, home addresses, social media identities for legal reasons<br />
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Legality of filming police varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction<br />
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Host outside the country - the more jurisdictions you create the harder it is to get ahold of data. <br />
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Only name publicly attached to the project is the civil liberties lawyer doing the legal filings.</div>Gunner