SurveillanceHigh
New Jersey Police Wrongful Arrested Innocent Black Man via FRT
- Occurred
- Jan 30, 2019
- Published
- Jan 4, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Woodbridge Police Department falsely arrested an innocent Black man following a misidentification by their facial recognition software, who was jailed for more than a week and paid thousands of dollar for his defense.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Woodbridge Police Department
Harmed parties
- Nijeer Parks
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition misidentification led to wrongful arrest and detention of an innocent person.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8