Thu Aug 10, 2023 – 6:51 pm EDT
DETROIT (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the Detroit Police Department is working on changing the policies surrounding the use of facial recognition software after the alleged wrongful arrest and detainment of a pregnant Detroit woman earlier this year. The case highlights one of the myriad dangers of an increased reliance on artificial intelligence.
Detroit Police Chief James White announced the plan for the changes after 32-year-old Porcha Woodruff was arrested at 7:50 a.m. February 16 on charges of robbery and carjacking, the Associated Press reported. Woodruff was eight months’ pregnant with her third child at the time.
“My two children had to witness their mother being arrested,” she said.
Woodruff said her children “stood there crying as I was brought away,” and that she worried the stress of the arrest and her subsequent hours in jail could have been harmful or even fatal for her unborn baby.
Police had identified Woodruff as a subject after using facial recognition technology to track down possible suspects in a January 29 carjacking case.
The officer assigned to the case, LaShauntia Oliver with the Detroit Police Department’s (DPD) Commercial Auto Theft Unit,
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