[jolux]

>just spin up your NN on any of the cloud platforms available

"just"...

Amazon marketed it to police explicitly, I'm pretty sure the open source team working on TensorFlow isn't going around suggesting you plop a model on Linode and use it to catch criminals. This isn't something that police departments have the ability or skill to discover and implement on their own, setting the menial bits up for them and suggesting a solution is half the battle with government stuff like this.

[donarb]

Police departments have started to get smart about technology.

The Seattle Police Department now has a division focusing on data analysis. This came out of a consent decree with the Justice Department to study compliance for use-of-force incidents, but is now being used for other things to quantify how well the police are using resources in different neighborhoods. Recently they sponsored a hackathon sprint for local developers to come up with ways to quickly anonymize police body cam footage so that citizens who were not the subject of an investigation could not be identified, but still provide requested footage in a timely manner.

https://statescoop.com/seattle-police-department-launches-da...

[darawk]

> Amazon marketed it to police explicitly

I don't see that in the article. Can you provide a source for that?

> This isn't something that police departments have the ability or skill to discover and implement on their own, setting the menial bits up for them and suggesting a solution is half the battle with government stuff like this.

It's something I have the ability to do on my own. Any police department could hire someone like me.

[jolux]

"Amazon marketing materials promoted the idea of using Rekognition in conjunction with police body cameras in real time"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/amazon-re...