city's mayor has apologized for the case and they're angry about that case and joint prosecutor kym worthy in my apology to mr williams but you have to think of the case and the case in my mind is about sub detective work and sub par weren't prosecutor work in january robert williams was arrested and held for more than a day on charges of theft police or facial recognition technology had matched his old driver's license photo with grainy surveillance footage of the incident leaves him self says it was obvious that a mistake could be made when i look at the picture of the guy i just see a big black guy i don't see a resemblance i don't think you looks like me at all scanning technology is used by ordinary people every day to unlock their smartphones or to tag friends and social media however when it comes to the police investigations artificial intelligence has drawn a lot of criticism for false matches and it seems to make more mistakes when it comes to darker skinned people thought police say that they have brought the new rules because of the williams case. facial recognition software is