Well, in that case it totally smells like police faked evidence to get the conviction rate up. If that is a standard they could take my mugshot, shortenmy hair, make it appear as blond and put dark shades on my nose. Bingo it was you. Aside from a little bit of digital editing no need to do do police work. How convenient.

If I ever get arrested I’d like to be airbrushed and photoshopped. Thanks.

Nope. 1 million No's. It's insane that the US is such a police state that people are asking themselves if the the police should be given the authority to augment reality or not. They shouldn't be allowed to tamper with people's memories or identities through photos. I'm not buying that they'd airbrush a man's tattoos away to "make it all fair." They just wanted to put any non-white guy in prison.

This is a terrible idea, eyewitness identifications are already problematic and unreliable, now we want to throw this into the mix? The police were extremely dumb here - if the witness said there were no facial tattoos, why was a person who had them included in the photos in the first place? And if the offender DID have facial tattoos, then perhaps all of the photos should have as well? Cops gonna cop I guess

Oh and gee, I wonder what groups of people would get screwed the most by this

Absolutely not, and but I'm also not surprised this happened there of all places. Portland has a racist history and it's still there

Just skimmed the article but I think the obvious answer is no. And I agree with Zou, I hope they're sued over it.

No! I hope that department gets sued for this.