Facial Recognition in use by Detroit Police Department

Facial Recognition in use by Detroit Police Department
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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City	Detroit
Country	USA
Involved Entities	Project Green Light Detroit
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Technology Deployed	Unknown Products 009, Motorola CommandCentral Aware
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0028, Motorola CommandCentral Aware (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations, Surveillance
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managed by	Detroit Police Department
used by	Detroit Police Department
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations, Surveillance

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Product Deployed	Briefcam (Software) Motorola CommandCentral Aware Unknown Products 0020
Institutions ⠉	Briefcam Ltd Motorola Solutions Unknown Products 0020
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0028 Motorola CommandCentral Aware (Dataset) Briefcam (Dataset)
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Status	Ongoing
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Involved Entities	Project Green Light Detroit
Managed by	Detroit Police Department
Used by	Detroit Police Department

Location:

City	Detroit (MI)
Country ⠉	USA

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Description

Detroit Police Department use facial recognition to target criminals, with a high profile case of misidentification of Robert Williams, who then sued the city. They also use an extended network of cameras in private businesses to monitor crime. Although the cameras do not have facial recognition capabilities, the video feeds can be used for such purposes.

Facial recognition technology became a highly contentious national issue last year when the Detroit Police Department’s use of the technology led to the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams. The city renewed the contract last fall, despite growing concerns over civil rights violations, and Detroit police use the technology at its Real Time Crime Center downtown. However, the department can use the technology only under specific guidelines, per the policy the BOPC approved in 2019 2

In Detroit, police use of face recognition led to the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams, a Black man who was arrested at his home in front of his family. Face recognition’s proven track record of inaccuracy when used against people of color makes us even more likely to be targeted, arrested, or detained. But even if this technology was perfectly accurate, it would still harm communities of color by facilitating systems that are already racist 1