A shooting near the Fairgrounds early Tuesday (Feb. 6) was captured on one of the city's new flashing crime cameras, New Orleans police said.
NOPD spokesman Beau Tidwell said technicians at the department's Real Time Crime Monitoring Center, where footage from the cameras can be viewed live, were "able to guide responding officers directly to the scene." Tidwell said police don't plan to release the video footage.
A preliminary NOPD report says the footage shows the shooter "firing about five shots at the victim." The NOPD might release a still photograph from the footage, Tidwell said. The shooting was reported about 4:15 a.m. in the 1800 block of Gentilly Boulevard.
The Fairgrounds-area shooting was one of four shootings NOPD officers investigated in 12 hours. Two of those shootings -- one Monday night in the 9th Ward and the other midmorning Tuesday in Central City -- were fatal.
A preliminary report states the man wounded in the Gentilly Boulevard shooting was twice shot and taken in a private vehicle to a hospital, where he underwent surgery.
Detectives investigating the shooting have viewed the footage, Tidwell said.
The city plans to install approximately 330 of the cameras -- easily spotted by flashing red and blue lights and an NOPD logo -- by the spring. Tidwell said he believed more than half of the cameras have already been installed. Police have said the cameras are slated for installation in "crime hot spots" in each of the eight police districts.
The cameras are equipped lights and logos to "be transparent about the location of public safety assets" in the community, Tidwell said. The noticeable lights also serve as a deterrent, he said. They light-up feature on the cameras were recommended by other cities who have used crime cameras, including Chicago, Detroit, Memphis and St. Louis, Tidwell said.
"The red and blue lights let would-be criminals know that someone is watching and that if they do something, it will be caught on camera," he in a statement.
As New Orleanians start to see the cameras pop up around the city, the multimillion dollar program -- part of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's $40 million public safety plan, announced January 2017 -- has faced some criticism from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana.
The ACLU has said parts of the city's crime camera program, which includes the city-owned cameras that were recently installed as well as a plan to require business owners to install cameras and make the footage accessible to the NOPD, could harm relations between the community and police.
ACLU Louisiana interim executive director Jane Johnson said in a statement the program, if fully implemented, could end up, "stifling our vibrant public space - without meaningfully reducing crime." An ordinance requiring business owners to install cameras has not yet been taken up by the New Orleans City Council.
A Jan. 30 New York Times article titled, "Will 1,500 street cameras be a wet blanket in New Orleans?" quoted Daniel Dean, a New Orleans resident who performs burlesque at a club in the French Quarter. Dean told the newspaper he worried, the camera program could be, "invading people's release to be a person that might be seen as provocative or inappropriate."
Kelby Reed, a 9th Ward resident, told The Times York Times he favored the program and thought it might help with the city's gun violence problem.
Aaron Miller, New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management director, told WDSU about 70 of the cameras would be installed in the 8th District, which polices the French Quarter, Marigny and Central Business District. He told the station cameras would also be installed along Mardi Gras parade routes Uptown, in Mid-City and on the West Bank.
Landrieu spokesman Tyronne Walker said in November the city attorney, which helped develop the camera program, and the NOPD would "ensure constitutional policing in its administration of the program." He also said then that the new program had already yielded quicker arrests and more efficient investigations.
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