• MushuChupacabra
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    Best of luck with getting cooperation from citizens at large.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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          351 month ago

          I’m not too fussed about the AI, to be honest. It’ll just declare that it has 14,986 suspects who “definitely” did it, most of whom will just coincidentally turn out to be black.

          The odds of them being able to definitively tie a face to a name in a single stroke are pretty remote. The investigation strategy will probably revolve around tracking down where he went and how he got there. If he rode a bus, they will investigate who was on that bus. Same if he took a plane. Or if he hired an Uber, or whatever. Whose credit cards were used to purchase tickets, whose cell phones were tracked in those locations at those times, etc. Wasn’t he on a rental bike? They will try to track payment methods for those rental bikes. Etc.

          Even with all their manpower and spy technologies and cell phone spoofing towers and dogs and any amount of shiny badges, the cops can’t clear a solve rate for murders in the US that’s any better than 50%. So there’s a coin-toss chance this guy didn’t go out of his way to do anything right and still walks away.

          • Tiefling IRL
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            141 month ago

            According to an ABC article, he apparently used cash for everything. Clever dude if true

            • @Zron
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              41 month ago

              I didn’t know you could use cash for rental bikes.

              All the ones in Chicago need the app in order to rent them.

              • Nougat
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                91 month ago

                Could you do it with a burner phone and load the app from a Visa gift card? Rent and place the city bike around the corner, do the deed, drop the phone (whether on accident or on purpose), take off on the bike.

                  • Nougat
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                    91 month ago

                    That might be tough, since the cardholder is on the hook for the bike. I know I wouldn’t do that for a stranger in NYC.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 month ago

              I really hope this doesn’t lead business to not accept cash.

              I should use more cash on a daily basis to discourage this…

              • @MutilationWave
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                11 month ago

                Businesses in NYC love cash. Shops everywhere have discounts for paying in cash. There are ATMs everywhere with $1 or less fee.

          • snooggums
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            41 month ago

            the cops can’t clear a solve rate for murders in the US that’s any better than 50%.

            That is averaged between the murders they don’t care about and the ones they put effort into. It isn’t thst every individual murder has a 50% chsnce of being solved.

        • @teamevil
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          161 month ago

          Turns out AI is wrong 90% of the time though