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Joe and Erich loved brown people. But, yes, targeting is a huge amplifier of the coercive force of violence.


> But they are trying very hard to not throw all brown people with an accent into detention centers

Are you sure about that? There's quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, starting with the really high false-positive[0][1[[2][3][4][5] rates of facial recognition, especially among people of color.

In fact, as the studies linked below show, people of color are misidentified (i.e., false positive) more than 1/3 of the time. That's not nearly accurate enough to round folks up if 10 of every 30 arrested, detained and potentially deported actually aren't the folks you're looking for.

What could possibly go wrong?

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-rec...

[1] https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/facial-recognition-race-1.54...

[3] https://jusmedia.co.uk/riotandreason/2025/06/02/face-the-bia...

[4] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-eva...

[5] https://civilrights.org/edfund/2024/09/25/advocates-ring-ala...




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