SurveillanceHigh
Man Arrested For Sock Theft by False Facial Match Despite Alibi
- Occurred
- Feb 15, 2018
- Published
- Nov 12, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A man was arrested for theft of socks from a TJ Maxx store under the guise of an eyewitness ID case, after the local police asked the store's security guard to confirm the facial recognition match produced using surveillance footage, despite him having an alibi at the time of the theft.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- New York Police Department
Harmed parties
- Unknown
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: False facial recognition match led to wrongful arrest, indicating significant harm and surveillance system failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8