Yevgeniy Pastukhov-Semchenkov
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
4/20/2018
Facial Recognition: History and Current Day Use
Introduction
In the age of technology, criminal justice system adopted many of the innovations introduced to the world by the recent technical progress. Scientific discoveries provided American law enforcement with technologies such as computerized systems, highly advanced forensic laboratories, radios, cell phones, video surveillance systems, etc. These technological innovations help law enforcement to adopt more advanced technics in the crime investigation process. One of the eminent technics implemented by American law enforcement relatively …show more content…
It is also widely used for forensics by law enforcement agencies and military structures. Osama Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid in the year of 2011 (History of Face Recognition, 2017). Facial recognition was one of the most helpful instruments used to identify and confirm that the dead body which allegedly was the body of Osama Bin Laden was his body indeed. This case is outstanding in its very nature, if not for facial recognition the world might still be experiencing the fear of one of the most infamous terrorists, who conducted many terror attacks all over the world. Despite all notorious cases such as the case of Osama Bin Laden, facial recognition is used by law enforcement on the daily …show more content…
Fears of people connected to the facial recognition technology do not have any ground since the use of databases is constantly controlled by FBI and other agencies. Despite the fact that facial recognition technology already is an inalienable part of law enforcement agencies’ work practices, it still remains under development, and there are many ways to improve it in the light of technological progress which tends to be a non-stoppable phenomenon. References
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