Under the guise of public safety, the city of New Orleans is amassing a surveillance grid of video cameras, microphones, facial recognition technology, and license-plate readers.
“We will see you, we will know who you are, we will be able to apprehend you,” Police Superintendent Michael Harrison told WVUE-DT. “We believe that will certainly give us the capacity to build great cases on the back end but it will give us a great deterrence effect on the front end.”
His comment came during the unveiling of the city’s Real-Time Crime Monitoring center Tuesday, according to news reports. City leaders in January announced a public safety improvement plan in response to increased crime, especially areas popular with tourists, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
“If you can hear and you can see what’s going on in real time and then you can communicate, and you have people forward then the chances of stopping crime from happening and then apprehending them has increased exponentially,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu told WVUE-DT.
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