That's true for police departments around the country and it's now increasingly common to see it used for graffiti, shoplifting, other low level offenses.
The huge crowds created a headache for the police, who worked longer shifts than usual as they dealt with traffic jams, accidents, shoplifting, and other issues.
A police officer in the US state of Ohio has been charged with murder for the shooting last August of a pregnant black woman who was suspected of shoplifting.
Well, it turns out that utilizing self-service stations are actually leading to greater losses than human cashiers, whether it be from accidental customer errors or from intentional shoplifting.
But where this dovetails is that now they're being called to shoplifting incidents and or they're catching shoplifters themselves in the act and prosecuting them.
And facial recognition is what Detroit police used to show up at the driveway of a man named Robert Williams and arrest him on suspicion of shoplifting.