Reid was on the way to a belated Thanksgiving dinner with his mother when the cops picked him up, three states and seven hours away from the scene of the crime.“I think they realized they went out on a limb making an arrest based on a face,” Calogero told the Advocate.tFacial recognition, though useful, is far from perfect.The technology has led to at least three wrongful arrests, and using facial recognition as the only justification to put suspects behind bars is a troubling and growing trend, according to Clare Garvie, training resource counsel with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.This time last year, it seemed like there was a growing movement to ban law enforcement’s use of technology, with legislatures across the country instituting a facial recognition prohibition for their police forces.For the better part of a century, an untold number of people were convicted of crimes using bogus forensic science like bite mark analysis and hair analysis."