CCTV cameras are everywhere, as are doorbell cameras and all the rest. Any of those that gets in the hands of authorities, which is almost all of it, they run facial recognition on. It’s been like that for a very long time, although facial recognition was virtually worthless for a long time but in the last 15 years has improved remarkably but still lacking.

There was a spate of long time fugitives that were busted like whitey bulghar whatever that boston gangster The Departed was loosely based off of, were caught. I believe that was the point they improved the tech to a large degree. It’s better with white people than minorities, or at least was because it was trained on more white faces.