Re: "inaccuracy rate of 87.5 per cent"
This part is very telling:
"Some were stopped for a crime the courts had already dealt with"
In other words, the they had no good reason to be on the wanted list AT ALL
"but were arrested for a more minor offence that would not normally be considered serious enough to be tackled using facial recognition."
In other words "We need to justify this, he's a bad man, so we arrested him on charges of walking on the cracks in the pavement, loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing, wearing a loud shirt in a built up area during the hours of darkness and being in possession of thick lips and curly black hair"
I'm willing to bet that the arrests were later voided, but the Met won't be breathing a word of that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
