Detroit Police Arrested Robert Williams in 2020 Over 1 False Non-Human Tipoff

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 28

January 2020 marked Robert Williams’s arrest by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed, the focus episode says.
A non-human tipoff—not a witness or informant—led officers to act, making the case a warning about machine-driven policing errors.
The report is a rebroadcast of a Black Box episode first aired on 18 March 2024, filling in while Today in Focus returns with new episodes on 1 September.
Season two of Black Box is due in early September, extending scrutiny of how technology can shape criminal investigations.