DINT 115 - Detroit Police to Pay Local Father $300K for False Arrest via Facial Recognition

Six people have been arrested due to mistakes involving facial recognition. Three of those false arrests happened in Detroit. The city’s police department will also re-work its facial recognition use.

It’s widely known, studied, and documented that facial recognition systems don’t recognize Black people’s faces.

The Detroit Police Department still uses facial recognition to aid crime investigations. That’s how Robert Williams came to be arrested after he parked his car in his driveway in the Farmington Hills near Detroit. 

Williams’ wife and two daught…