Posted on 03/08/2005 11:09:06 AM PST by SmithL
New Orleans (AP) --
The man marched down the street in daylight, armed with a paintball rifle that had been converted to shoot with lethal force. He then blasted a newly installed camera in hopes of freeing the drug-ridden neighborhood from police surveillance.
But the shooter's image was saved on the camera's hard drive.
"All it did was get him arrested," chuckled New Orleans' chief technology officer, Greg Meffert. "The camera immediately notified the police and tracked him until he was caught."
And when they got him, they found he was wanted on a murder arrant.
The arrest was the first success story from a sophisticated new crime-fighting system of cameras that New Orleans is installing citywide.
The bulletproof cameras can monitor an eight-block area, communicate with the authorities and provide evidence in court. Police hope the system will catch crooks in the act and serve as a crime deterrent in a city long plagued by drugs and murders.
Civil libertarians are calling it Big Brother in the Big Easy,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Oh, goodie....I FEEEEEEEL safer already.
odoso wrote:
Surveillance camera's are not what America needs or wants... We simply need to enforce the laws!!!
-->Yes, also we need more cops that enforce real laws, not the lame laws.
"I do not believe that the kind of society I describe in 1984 necessarily WILL arrive, but I believe...that something resembling it COULD arrive. I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere." - George Orwell
The article says it was not destroyed, it helped track him as he roamed the streets until the cops could intercept him.
I guess we know who didn't RTFA.
...hope they are installed in the municipal govt. offices.
I think I saw the same camera handing out beads on Bourbon Street.
I feel so bad for all those coeds who thought flashing would get 'em into a Girls Gone Wild video. Now they'll just be on some surveillance tape, and you know the production values will be less than stellar on THAT.
Are you kidding? We are talking New Orleans! The marketing rights for the video feed would go for a pretty penny. People would sign up for an All Bourbon Street Channel. LOL.
Isn't it about time that we get a true privacy amendment added to the constitution? Are people that sheep-like that this doesn't bother them?
Haha. We were thinking on the same plane. I had to correct a spelling error or I would have beat you! LOL
huh?
"All Bourbon Street Channel."
http://www.nola.com/bourbocam/classic/
LOL! It looked pretty calm, bet it gets a little different at night.
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