Quote Originally Posted by K-slice View Post
Until facial recognition systems become fully autonomous [[because all humans have gone blind I guess?) there is no reason to stop using it.

It's not like the system makes an identification and the police are dispatched immediately and jail time doled out. I'm not in law enforcement, but I find it hard to believe than when the system does identify someone there is no human taking a look to confirm the systems work. And assuming such is the case, the whole point of these systems not being fully reliable is moot.
Think this through. How many grainy, terrible images of perps faces have you seen on home or business cameras out there? Or glimpses of a face through a hood? A person can't help figure it out, that's why they go to facial recognition for the computer to link it. That's what they'll ultimately land on.

Not every time, there will be situations like you put it with clear looks and police just need a name, but a lot will be left to the software for evidence.