LAPD officers conduct nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches
Los Angeles Police Department records showed nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches since late 2009 and access for 330 officers, contradicting earlier public denials and documenting operational use of systems supplied by several vendors.
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Why it moved the index
The records establish sustained, large-scale police use of biometric identification with weak public transparency, creating direct surveillance and civil-liberties harms rather than merely hypothetical misuse. The evidence did not verify an exact deployed model version.
Assessment history
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Toward 38 · confidence 92
New evidence-based September 2020 operational-surveillance disclosure absent from the durable corpus.
11 Aug 2026
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DoomBench assesses “LAPD officers conduct nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 38 and confidence 92 out of 100 in the misuse and incidents category.
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DoomBench summarizes “LAPD officers conduct nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches” as follows: Los Angeles Police Department records showed nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches since late 2009 and access for 330 officers,...
https://www.doombench.com/news/lapd-officers-conduct-nearly-30-000-facial-recognition-searches-2020-09-21