“In 2020, Detroit’s police chief said their facial recognition technology, when used alone, fails 96% of the time, Insider previously reported.”
Detroit knew its system failed 96% of the time on its own and kept running about 125 searches a year. Porcha Woodruff is the sixth reported false arrest, and all six people were Black. The chief now calls the allegations “very concerning.” Three years after admitting the failure rate is a strange time to start being concerned.