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Friday, January 27, 2012 09:04Although New Orleans has scrapped its oft-ridiculed public crime camera system, police detectives are increasingly turning to private security cameras to catch images of villains in the act, reports the Times-Picayune. Since last summer, the nonprofit ProjectNOLA has donated 75 high-definition cameras to homeowners in high-crime areas, on the condition that they be aimed at the street. The nonprofit group's volunteers already monitor crime scanners, but now they can link remotely to any camera in the area and send fresh footage via cell phone to detectives.
ProjectNOLA founder Bryan Lagarde, a former police officer and district attorney's office employee, started ProjectNOLA because he "got sick of telling crime victims, 'Sorry, we have no evidence.'"Other cities, such as Chicago and Atlanta, combine public-private systems more formally, by compiling maps of all private surveillance systems or creating integrated systems that allow police departments, under certain conditions, to view live footage from thousands of private systems.
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