A memo submitted to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee Tuesday states that since the October rollout of AI-powered facial recognition software, the Dallas Police Department has generated leads in 34 cases.

That’s out of the 94 approved requests by officers hoping to utilize the technology over the last six months, the memo states. The only question from the committee: why isn’t it being used more?

“I think the first couple of months that we had it, (we were) just trying to get the word out there and talking to the [Crimes Against Persons] unit because all the offenses that we could use it for reside within the CAPERS division,” Major Brian Lamberson with DPD’s criminal intelligence unit said. “[Requests] were kind of slow coming in … but over time I think we're starting to se

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