Image Recognition
Detroit police address recent lawsuit involving arrest after facial recognition use“An image of the individual who dropped the phone or who left the phone there… was used for facial recognition. Department policy does not allow the use of facial recognition in photo lineups. Effective immediately, the department has banned the use of facial recognition photos in photo lineups. Robert Williams sued DPD in 2021 after facial recognition mistakenly identified him as a shoplifting suspect, leading to his arrest. “The elephant in the room is this is empirical evidence that says facial recognition is inherently biased,” Robinson said.