AURORA, Colo. — After a discussion with the Aurora City Council Monday night, the Aurora Police Department is one step closer to using facial recognition technology to help identify suspects and solve crimes. However, there is pushback from some city leaders and community members, who see it as more of a problem than a solution.

APD is looking to compare images of an unknown suspect with either a library of mugshots shared through the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium (CISC) or with a database of more than 30 billion images publicly available online, compiled by the company ClearView AI.

“We're not using this in a proactive way,” APD Commander Chris Poppe said during Monday’s Aurora City Council study session. “Our use of this technology will be on the back end as an investigative

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