Legal Aid Society attorney Diane Akerman criticized the AI-powered scanning program, stating, "That's 118 additional New Yorkers who were subjected to additional stop and search, who had their privacy invaded for no reason. The fact that the NYPD notes 12 knives but no arrests leads me to believe these were completely legal knives."
Despite the failure of the Evolv pilot program, NYPD claimed it served as a crime deterrent, saying, "During this trial program, there were no shootings at any subway stations where the Evolv technology was deployed." This statement has been met with skepticism due to contextual factors.
Experts long opposed to the Evolv startup's AI tech have now been vindicated as the pilot program was revealed to have produced zero gun recoveries and 118 false positives.
The article points out that subway violence is quite rare, noting, "As the New York Times found in 2022, subway violence is actually quite rare despite what some pundits would have you believe, with only one violent act for every one million rides."
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