In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black

• All six known reports of false arrests due to facial recognition technology were made by Black people.
• As activists have warned for several years, facial recognition technology and AI can exacerbate racial inequity in policing.
• Several police departments across the country use the technology, with Baltimore police running over 800 searches last year, one expert said.

For several years, civil liberties groups, tech experts, and activists have warned that the use of facial recognition technology will only increase racial inequities in policing. 

As time goes on, it is becoming even more clear that these warnings were right.