The broad public safety plan announced last year, which included an early version of the camera plan, discussed taking steps to “reduce the culture of permissiveness” in New Orleans. The city’s Independent Crime Monitor wrote a letter to council members in November, citing studies showing that video monitoring programs elsewhere have often had little effect on violent crime. A block away at the Black Penny, a tiny bar on North Rampart Street, grousing over the cameras was easy to find. “It’s almost like a direct attack on the bar culture in this city,” Mr. Hughes said. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“They could put cameras everywhere, as far as I care,” Ms. Prevost said.

Source: New York Times January 30, 2018 10:30 UTC