Since April, there have been 25 incidents in which Danes have hired Swedish youths to commit violent crimes in Denmark, says the Danish Minister of Justice. To get this escalating violence under control, the Danish police are calling for more use of facial recognition technology.
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To get Denmark’s escalating violence problem under control, the Danish police plan to use more facial recognition technology.
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard and Police Commissioner Thorkild Fogde both said that the use of more digital tools could be the solution to the recent increase in shootings and violent crime in Copenhagen.
“If you have a photo of someone or something, you can run that object or face through the digital tool to search through tens of thousands of hours of video footage and look for the target,” the Danish Minister of Justice explains of the facial recognition technology. “This way, in the best case, we could prevent an incident or at least find the suspect faster.”
Fingerprints and facial recognition
Some parties are fundamentally against this technology. National Police President Thorkild Fogde argues against it and says that digital assistance with fingerprinting is not a problem either:
“Facial recognition is a biometric identifier that is almost as reliable as fingerprints. We check fingerprints electronically through our fingerprint registry. Nobody asks questions about it. Nobody expects us to manually go through the 150,000 fingerprints to see if we have a match. We still manually go through photos with facial recognition to identify them, but we can also do that electronically if the politicians allow it.”
Since April, there have reportedly been 25 incidents in Denmark in which young Swedes have been hired by Danes to commit deadly crimes in Denmark, according to Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard.
Justice Minister Hummelgaard said this was “an expression of a completely sick, depraved culture of violence”.
