Detroit woman suing police, claiming faulty facial recognition technology led to unjust arrest
Faulty use of facial recognition technology led to the unjust arrest of a Detroit woman, she said in a federal lawsuit, alleging that police failed to ask basic questions that could've cleared her on the spot.
Faulty use of facial recognition technology led to the unjust arrest of a Detroit woman, she said in a federal lawsuit, alleging that police failed to ask basic questions that could've cleared her on the spot.
LaDonna Crutchfield, 37, was at home with her children on Jan. 23, 2024, when police took her away in handcuffs and accused her of being their prime suspect in an attempted murder, according to a complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
LaDonna Crutchfield.via Law Offices of Ivan L. LandCrutchfield "was identified as a suspect by an unknown facial recognition database," the lawsuit said.
Investigators knew the name of their suspect — not Crutchfield — and could've easily seen the plaintiff is 5 inches shorter and several years younger than the alleged shooter, Crutchfield's attorney Ivan Land told NBC News on Friday.
Detroit police concede that Crutchfield turned out not to be the suspect that detectives were searching for — but insisted that facial recognition technology wasn't used here.
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