NJ cops stop using facial ID software after arrest of wrong man Published: December 29, 2020 Archive photo from Dec. 18, 2017, shows facial recognition technology as demonstrated via a teleconference at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) A Paterson man has filed a civil lawsuit that accuses Woodbridge police of "extreme racial profiling" in wrongly arresting him based solely on facial recognition software that has since been flagged by the state attorney general. According to the lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Passaic County, 33-year-old Najeer Parks, says that he was held for more than a week in Middlesex County jail in early 2019 after being mistaken for a shoplifter who had driven from a hotel in Woodbridge and struck a police car in the process.