Blurry Photos Are Getting Brazilians Jailed

Brazil has a mugshot problem. Innocent people can be charged with crimes when the only evidence is a blurry photo and an unconfident witness. A study shows that 83 percent of suspects who were wrongly arrested based entirely on photo recognition were Black.

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