Heavily armed police raiding the homes of unarmed, non-violent suspects on the flimsiest of pretexts, and behaving more like an occupying army in hostile territory than guardians of public safety.
They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information is similar to say, sifting through a suspect's purse.
Similar incidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs. Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.
California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumptions that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.
The technology allows computers to compare facial features caught on camera with the features of faces stored in a database and those may include mug shots of suspects or criminals.
What happened after Usual Suspects and a number of other films I did, sort of that all came out in a span of about six months, was that I think suddenly people started to connect the dots.