Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 43 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,908
@982,906 (Sheila LaBoof)
Maybe the mugshot database is set up to standardize image sizes or something? Like some law enforcement standard that was set to try to make every mugshot as similar as possible (kind of like passport photos) so they could be easily stored/displayed/analyzed. The result being that cops take a mugshot that looks normal to them at more natural aspect ratio and it gets auto-fit into an X-by-X box somewhere down the road when it gets put into the system? Just spitballing here, but it sounds plausible.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,916
I think that if it was about biometrics then they wouldn't alter the actual image
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 15 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,919
@previous (C)
I'm guessing whatever mugshot databases exist at the state or federal level predate modern facial recognition and biometric software, so no one would have designed it for that. I was thinking more of standardized images that would fit into a template for mugshot albums, press releases, or display software on something like the TAC5 mobile systems departments use in their cars.
Anonymous C replied with this 7 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,922
Maybe it's to prevent facial recognition because they are only arrested and not through court yet
Mrs.Kate Gerard joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 34 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,929
@982,919 (B)
Wouldn't you crop instead of stretch then?
Mrs.Kate Gerard double-posted this 7 years ago, 27 seconds later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,930
Also why do they release mugshots in usamerica
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 16 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,932
@982,929 (Mrs.Kate Gerard)
That would make more sense. I don't know if what I suggested is even the reason. I was just trying to come with some scenario where it would make sense for a lot of them to end up vertically compressed. I've seen the same kind of thing happen with product catalogs where the product images were taken from different product shots and someone tried to force them into a layout with square image frames.
Mrs.Kate Gerard replied with this 7 years ago, 5 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#982,933
@previous (B)
I've made a few product catalogues and I can't think of a single good reason why that would happen besides incompetence.
hmmm.
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 11 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^][v]#983,037
@previous (Mrs.Kate Gerard)
It's the kind of incompetence that you can only get from an institution. Where person A has an idea, person B writes a proposal, person C makes a simple template, persons D-H request information, persons I-W collect photographs, and person X gets handed the whole pile of shit and told to make something on a deadline with no real control over the process or the authority to change anything. It's pretty common in government work.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^][v]#983,211
Make this thread again.
Sheila LaBoof (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 40 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^][v]#983,218