there are 5,000 police photographs, but 2,884 are "shown to be" detained. the remaining 2,116 are not detained.
5,000 police mugshots over an unknown amount of time in a province of 25 Million people is of course not remarkable. there is no statement that these are photos from just one county, which still would not be remarkable.
It's not established that these are police mugshots and not pictures for photo IDs.
most of the photos are ordinary, but a dozen out of the 5000 have crying or upset expressions or police officers in frame, which are featured front and center in the article of course.
many of the pictures look deepfaked, but actually the experts BBC consulted said they're real photos ran through an auto-crop and auto-rotate program, which I believe, and sounds like a process that makes more sense for photo IDs than mugshots.
there are 5,000 police photographs, but 2,884 are "shown to be" detained. the remaining 2,116 are not detained.
5,000 police mugshots over an unknown amount of time in a province of 25 Million people is of course not remarkable. there is no statement that these are photos from just one county, which still would not be remarkable.
It's not established that these are police mugshots and not pictures for photo IDs.
most of the photos are ordinary, but a dozen out of the 5000 have crying or upset expressions or police officers in frame, which are featured front and center in the article of course.
many of the pictures look deepfaked, but actually the experts BBC consulted said they're real photos ran through an auto-crop and auto-rotate program, which I believe, and sounds like a process that makes more sense for photo IDs than mugshots.