BiasMedium
NYPD's Deployment of Facial Recognition Cameras Reportedly Reinforced Biased Policing
- Occurred
- Oct 8, 2016
- Published
- Feb 15, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
New York Police Department’s use of facial recognition deployment of surveillance cameras were shown using crowdsourced volunteer data reinforcing discriminatory policing against minority communities.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- New York Police Department
Harmed parties
- racial minorities
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves facial recognition reinforcing discriminatory policing against minority communities, primarily a bias issue.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8