Posted on 03/20/2024 11:39:38 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
That’s not really what’s going on here. They aren’t replacing the faces for important stuff like amber alert suspects. It’s only in silly things you can argue they shouldn’t even be posting online, photos they decide are “funny” and put on the police department’s social media purely for entertainment.
Some Scandinavian country tried this by pixelating faces to hide the race of criminals. Naturally you could tell the black pixelated faces were black criminals so they changed all the pixelations to Caucasian-colored pixelation. Of course they didn’t pixelate the arms of the criminals.
When I saw the photo I presumed — correctly so, no doubt — it was a group photo of the police department administrative staff.
I liked it. It was funny. Sadly...
Lego tells California police department to stop using its minifigure heads
https://ktla.com/news/california/lego-stops-california-police-department-from-hiding-suspects-faces-with-toy-heads/
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