Jim Trainum

Bio

Jim Trainum spent 17 years in homicide for DC's Metropolitan Police Department and now specializes in reducing false identifications and wrongful convictions.

Latest Work

Facial Recognition Surveillance Doesn't Necessarily Make You Safer

If we don’t recognize facial recognition’s problems and implement policies to mitigate them, the technology will sweep innocent individuals into investigations, undercut police-community relations, and waste law enforcement resources.

July 22, 2019

By Jim Trainum

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