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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission Holds Meeting on Facial Recognition 📹 Use By MPD 👮
Description: On Wednesday, June 18th, one day before Gus T. was scheduled to fly back to Seattle, Milwaukee's Equal Rights Commission held a meeting to discuss a proposed "trade" that would allow the Milwaukee Police Department to acquire free Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) cameras from the company Biometrica. In the proposed swap, Biometrica receives 2.5 million mugshots of people arrested by MPD. The demographic most likely to be arrested in Milwaukee is black males. Gus sat front row for this fascinating and informative discussion. Mostly people classified as White were in attendance - although there were a substantial number of non-white people...