In 2022, New Orleans police began using facial recognition by IDEMIA to identify suspects. However, a year later, the system "is rarely associated with arrests and is disproportionately used on Black people".
That's according to a Politico investigation: ‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing:
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