SurveillanceHigh
Wrongful Attempted Arrest for Apple Store Thefts Due to NYPD’s Facial Misidentification
- Occurred
- Nov 8, 2018
- Published
- Nov 13, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
New York Police Department (NYPD)’s facial recognition system falsely connected a Black teenager to a series of thefts at Apple stores, which resulted in his wrongful attempted arrest.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- New York Police Department
Harmed parties
- Ousmane Bah
- NYC Black young people
- NYC Black people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition misuse led to wrongful attempted arrest, indicating serious harm and surveillance system failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8