According to police records presented to the City Council, the network “proved to be useful in only one case.” Investigating the tensions between these claims, the post suggested that we can never know how many suspects were misinterpreted or what steps the police have taken to ensure the use of controversial direct feeds.
In the United States, New Orleans stand to take a step forward compared to law enforcement agencies in other areas to immediately use facial identification cameras for arrests. The Security Industry Association told the post that four states – Merland, Montana, Vermont, and Virginia – and 19 cities across the country “clearly stopped this exercise”.
Lagarde told the post that the police could not see the “direct” search of the suspects on the camera network or could not add the suspects to the watch list in real time. An NOPD spokesman, Ris Harper, told the post that his department “does not depend, depend, manage, to members of any artificial intelligence system department associated with a vast network of Nola crime cameras.”
In a federal compulsory 2023 audit, New Orleans police complained that it takes a long time to comply with the ordinance and that “often” has no match. This may mean that the tech is poor, or it may be a sign that the process is acting on the purpose of preventing false arrests.
The post states that overall, “at least eight Americans have been wrongly arrested due to facial recognition,” as, when the arrest of police and AI software, the arrest of rush, mistakes.
“By adopting this system, secretly, without safety, and our privacy and security, the city of New Orleans has crossed a thick red line,” Vesler said. “This is the equipment of the authoritarian surveillance states and has no place in US policing.”
The project Nola did not immediately respond to the request for ARS opinion.