Stupidity Gets Co-Sponsors

Like attracts like....and moron attracts moron:

• A North Side lawmaker’s effort to strip Illinois police investigators of one of their most powerful new tools since the advent of DNA indexing has failed to get out of committee. But the bill has two new co-sponsors, both from Chicago, suggesting it is far from dead even though its supporters can’t seem to find any examples of the technology being used to wrongly accuse anyone of wrongdoing in Illinois.

  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, would ban any local or state law enforcement agency in Illinois from accessing a facial recognition database, and would prohibit agencies from working around that ban by partnering with or contracting out to a third party to do it on their behalf.

  Tom Weitzel, the retired Chief of Police in suburban Riverside, was blunt in his assessment.

  “Facial recognition is one of the most important investigative tools to come along in policing in 50 years,” he said. “Eliminating it outright is reckless and dangerous.”  Cassidy’s bill, Weitzel continued, “doesn’t regulate facial recognition; it destroys it. It strips police of a critical tool used to identify violent offenders and protect the public. No one in Illinois has ever been charged based solely on a facial recognition match. That claim is a myth, and it should not be driving legislation.”

To be honest, most democrat sponsored legislation is based on "muh feelings" and not actual facts. We could point out hundreds of examples without breaking a sweat. It's about (A) control and (B) loving criminals more than law abiding citizens.

If you look at the co-sponsors, they're the usual mix of idiots. And the ACLU supports this without being able to cite a single instance of anyone being actually charged in Illinois, instead citing a Michigan case from a number of years ago when the technology was in its infancy and the subject was merely detained, not charged.