Win-win.
He gets a better photo of himself and the police get a more accurate one for people to recognize him from.
To anyone who thinks a photo can't be inaccurate I present... the left and right photos in this story above.
A man wanted by police in Ohio has sent in a selfie to replace the photo authorities have used in a crime alert. Donald "Chip" Pugh, 45, is being sought by the Lima, OH Police Department for failure to appear in court. Pugh is also a person of interest in separate arson and vandalism cases. In an alert posted to Facebook, the …
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Generally, yes. But not always.
If it's somebody wearing a Burka then a picture is going to be a bit pointless since it's going totally cover any facial features making identification from the picture impossible.
If it's a Sikh wearing a turban however, then you might as well just take the picture with it on since they will invariably be wearing it and frankly the absence of the turban in the picture would make it harder to identify the person, not easier.
Why? It doesn't exempt you from the requirement to have nothing covering your face, which rules out burqas and the like. A turban or hijab still gives a perfectly good view of someone's face.
Same as the rule about sunglasses - you could have chronic light-sensitivity which needs you to cover your eyes at all times, but you'd still have to have your passport photo taken with eyes open and shades off.
You seem to have missed:
-not have anything covering your face
Your face and your head are not the same thing.
Even if your head is covered, your face MUST BE exposed. e.g. wearing a hat covers the head but does not cover the face. If wearing a burka, the part covering the face must be removed/pulled aside to show the face, but the part covering the head (i.e. your hairline) may remain.
And this is why *everyone* who wears glasses (which they need to read the instructions on the auto-passport booth) was getting rejected at the e-gate when I came through Manchester airport before Christmas.
Wasn't really very well thought out was it?
People wear glasses to read instructions, machine doesn't recognize person with glasses because photo had to be taken without glasses. Idiotic
He's on the run for skipping bail, arson and vandalism. Nobody is going to be checking server logs or whatever else. They'll pop round to his mum's tomorrow to get him. How much spare time do you think cops have?
(Ok, now that this is international news it might get more attention, but normally this would be one of many "if you come across him" on the briefing)
I doubt many people would have ID'd him from that. Besides which, the dummy has probably gifted law enforcement with the IP address of his phone (which can trace back to its phone provider, identity etc.), with possibly some geotags thrown in for good measure.
There are enough similarities to say it is - the kink in his hairline, the shape of his eyebrows, the vertical crease / scar next to one eyebrow, the general proportions of his face.
It's just in one it looks like he was off his head on something and the other looks like a passport photo.
This isn't some master criminal at work here, just the latest in a line of dummies who think it's a fabulous idea to goad police through the internet only to provide assistance in their own capture.
All the metadata embedded in the self portrait he'd submitted, plus the scene in the background, proved he'd snapped the new photo in front of the police station that had issued the original Be On The Look Out for him in the first place.
If you're going to thumb your nose at them & taunt them like Frenchmen atop the castle walls, do it on their own front steps as further proof you don't think they can catch you.
Then when the Judge asks WTF you were thinking when you did it, your reply of "Temporary Insanity" holds that much more credibility.
*Cough*
Wait, am I the only one who's noticed that he's taken his 'style' selfie while at the wheel of a car?
That'll be another charge added to the list then, when they eventually nab him ...
(...or is using a mobile while operating a motor vehicle not yet banned in the US ?)