Wrongfully Arrested Because of Flawed Face Recognition Technology

Robert Williams was arrested and hauled away by the police in broad daylight in front of his home, his wife, and two little daughters. He was locked up for nearly 30 hours. He did nothing wrong, but the cops wouldn’t listen. They only cared about what a flawed computer algorithm had to say. Robert is likely not the first person to be wrongfully arrested or interrogated based off of a bogus face recognition hit. There are likely many more people like Robert who don’t know that it was a flawed technology that made them appear guilty in the eyes of the law. When you add racist and broken technology to a racist and broken criminal legal system, you get racist and broken outcomes. Face recognition technology should play no role in the over-policing of Black and Brown communities.