Ahead of a key contract renewal date, activists are pushing to end facial recognition use in Detroit, the US city with the highest percentage of Black residents
Alfred Ng / CNET : Tweets: @alfredwkng , @edmarkey , @phil_lewis_ , @combsthepoet , and @alfredwkng Tweets: @alfredwkng : New: Detroit is the largest city in the US with a majority Black population. Its police use facial recognition with a 96% error rate, almost only on Black people. Residents are fighting to let its facial recognition contract expire on July 24. https://www.cnet.com/... Ed Markey / @edmarkey : It has been proven again and again that facial recognition surveillance has a racial bias that disproportionately harms Black communities. We must ban this technology and protect our communities from dangerous surveillance and over-policing. https://www.cnet.com/... Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_ : Activists are fighting to end racial recognition and its racial bias in Detroit, a city that boasts the highest percentage of Black residents in America. The city's facial recognition contract ends on July 24 - unless the city decides to renew it. https://www.cnet.com/... Tawana Petty / @combsthepoet : We know what keeps us safe: affordable water, quality schools, real affordable housing, grocery stores, recreation for young people, etc. You don't respond to quality of life crime with surveillance. You increase quality of life for people with resources. #SurveillanceAintSafety https://twitter.com/... @alfredwkng : Facial recognition came to Detroit in 2017 promising to reduce crime. 700 cameras, 3 years and $1.2 million later, homicides and shootings are up. And with the threat of false arrests, people feel less safe with the technology: https://www.cnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...