SurveillanceHigh
Detroit Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Due To Faulty Facial Recognition
- Occurred
- Jul 31, 2019
- Published
- Nov 19, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Black man was wrongfully detained by the Detroit Police Department as a result of a false facial recognition (FRT) result.
Developers
- DataWorks Plus
Deployers
- Detroit Police Department
Harmed parties
- Michael Oliver
- Black people in Detroit
- Black people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Wrongful arrest due to faulty facial recognition constitutes a serious civil rights violation and legal harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8