Big data is constantly making our lives better by helping businesses to serve us better while becoming more efficient, pinpointing trends in large datasets, and even improving healthcare. It’s also definitely making criminals’ lives harder in many ways, making our communities safer overall. From helping police to identify crime patterns in cities to scanning large databases for specific information, big data is revolutionizing criminal justice, and making it a lot harder for people to get away with breaking the law. Fingerprint analysis has long been an important part of forensic evidence to build a case, but thanks to big data and artificial intelligence, there’s a newer tool that can help identify suspects: facial recognition.
How it Works
If you’re out and about these days, there’s a good chance you’re getting caught on video somewhere. Surveillance cameras aren’t just for gas stations these days, and they can be helpful witnesses in criminal activity. With enhancement technology available, it’s often an easy way to identify a suspect. However, calling on the public to identify individuals in these photos often wastes precious time—time for criminals to skip town or change their appearance.
Facial recognition in criminal justice relies on a database—a big data dataset that contains …