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Blog - The Police Need Efficient ID Verification - IDMERIT

In the United States, people of color are dealing with more interactions with the police. Some of these incidents are related to the inability of authorities to use efficient ID verification. Most recently a non-threatening, black, graduate student at Yale had the police called on her while she was asleep in her dormu2019s common room. According to Time, this 911 call was placed with racially biased motivations.

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Blog - The Police Need Efficient ID Verification - IDMERIT

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  1. 1/20/22, 3:16 PM Blog - The Police Need Efficient ID Verification - IDMERIT The Police Need E?cient ID Veri?cation 21 May  By Alex McGinness |  In Identity Veri?cation | What happened at Yale In the United States, people of color are dealing with more interactions with the police. Some of these incidents are related to the inability of authorities to use e?cient ID veri?cation. Most recently a non-threatening, black, graduate student at Yale had the police called on her while she was asleep in her dorm’s common room. According to Time, t 911 call was placed with racially biased motivations. Lolande Sinyonbola, the victim, posted two videos of the encounter on Facebook. In the ?rst video, she talks with he white neighbor, Sarah Braach, who says, “I have every right to call the police. You cannot sleep in that room.” In the second, Sinyonbola interacts with o?cers who question her and then ask for her ID to validate her identity and right t be in the building. O?cers call Siyonbola’s ID in, and after some confusion about it – the name on her ID did not match the name in the Yale student database–the police let her go. In this case, if the police had e?cient ID veri?cation methods this incide https://www.idmerit.com/blog/the-police-need-efficient-id-verification/ 1/2

  2. 1/20/22, 3:16 PM Blog - The Police Need Efficient ID Verification - IDMERIT could have been diverted. Interactions with the Police are on the Rise This event follows several others in recent weeks where people of color have had the police called on them, sparkin outrage on social media about racial pro?ling (CNN). In one incident, a group of black people was detained while leaving their Airbnb in California. In another, two black men were arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia when they d not order anything from the menu. In yet another, two Native American teens were removed from a tour at Colorado State University because they made a mother on the tour nervous. E?cient ID Veri?cation and Authentication Needs Improvement At Yale, new technologies could have made the process of validating Sinyonbola’s identity much easier. O?cers cou have used mobile technologies to determine if Siyonbola’s ID was real without calling it in. From there, it could have taken the information from her ID and run it through an API to crosscheck it against the records in the Yale database. This would have occurred in real time and given o?cers the information they needed to de-escalate the situation in a more e?cient and quick manner. It is clear based on recent news reports that solutions need to be implemented that make ID veri?cation and authentication less complicated. This would reduce the risk of embarrassing people of color who are being a?ected actions motivated by racial bias. Plus, police o?cers would have an easier time doing their jobs. https://www.idmerit.com/blog/the-police-need-efficient-id-verification/ 2/2

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