Civil rights groups are condemning the Detroit police’s wrongful arrest of a pregnant Black woman in the latest demonstration of the pitfalls of police reliance on facial recognition technology.
The victim of a robbery and carjacking early this year implicated Porcha Woodruff as a woman who was present during the crimes, picking her from a photo lineup compiled based on facial recognition software, according to a lawsuit filed in a Michigan federal court last week. Woodruff’s complaint names the city and LaShauntia Oliver, a police detective assigned to the case, as defendants.
It’s the latest example of an unreliable accusation ...
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