Image Recognition
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit police will continue to use facial recognition technology after a close vote by the Board of Police Commissioners. By a vote of 5-3 Thursday night with two people abstaining, a measure to suspend the use of facial recognition for a year was shot down. The technology has come under fire this week after a lawsuit filed against the department claims facial recognition led to the false arrest of a Detroit woman who was 8 months pregnant. Facial recognition technology used on a surveillance image of the suspect provided a detective with Woodruff's name and photo, along with more than 70 other potential matches. “We've been able to capture at least 16 murderers — 16 — using facial recognition,“ White said.