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Why Police Must Stop Using Face Recognition Technologies
"What the Detroit Police Department made me endure changed my life forever," writes Robert Williams.
They refused to tell me why, and I had to spend the night sleeping on a cold concrete bench in an overcrowded, filthy jail cell before finally finding out that I was being falsely accused of stealing designer watches from a Detroit boutique. Since my story became public in 2020, we’ve learned of two other Black people in Detroit, Porcha Woodruff and Michael Oliver, who were also wrongfully arrested for crimes they didn’t commit based on police reliance on faulty facial recognition technology searches. For the past several years since my wrongful arrest, my family and I have traveled around Michigan and the country urging policymakers to protect their constituents from the horror I went through by stopping law enforcement from misusing this technology.
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