‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing
In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor, police and businesses supported as an effective, fair tool for identifying criminals quickly....
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