Police Chief Eddie Garcia calls facial recognition software a game changer.
Police Department received city councilmembers' blessing to use a controversial facial recognition software to identify people suspected of crimes, over opposition from the ACLU and at least one member of the city's police oversight board.
The technology allows detectives to process a still image of a potential perpetrator from surveillance video of a crime, for example, to try to identify a suspect's name. technology has come under scrutiny from the ACLU and others because of privacy concerns about how it collects images for its database and the potential for wrongful arrests driven by false matches from the software.
"Even with the best policies in place, you just can't eliminate the chance – the very real chance – that innocent people will end up arrested or otherwise scrutinized," he said, pointing out that studies show facial recognition software is particularly prone to error with people of color. "This is just a piece of the puzzle," Major Stephen Williams said.
Williams said DPD would not use the software without a crime committed and will not use it for live-streamed events, protests, or other incidents it deems"first amendment activities." The members of City Council's Public Safety Committee, who said they had been briefed by police in private in advance of the meeting, did not express any similar concerns publicly Monday.
As part of the city council presentation, DPD showed a"word cloud" of other departments that said it used facial recognition software, including Fort Worth Police and Arlington Police.
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