![]() LAPD has consistently denied using the controversial technology, but it had, in fact, run machine learning algorithms nearly 30,000 times over a time span between November 2009, and September 2020. Technically the LAPD does not have its own tools, it instead outsources the use of machine-learning algorithms through a database of mugshots compiled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. ![]() ![]() Officers used software built by DataWorks Plus, the same biometrics company whose technology led to two wrongful arrests by the Detroit Police Department, according to the Los Angeles Times who discovered the setup. ![]() In brief The Los Angeles Police Department has run facial recognition algorithms a whopping 29,817 times over a decade in an attempt to identify suspected criminals captured in CCTV footage, despite promising it wouldn't.
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