Manhunt for escaped New Orleans inmates reaches Sixth day
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The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) secretly received real-time, AI-generated alerts from 200 facial recognition cameras throughout the city for two
For two years, the New Orleans police used AI to identify people on live camera feeds in order to make immediate arrests, The Washington Post reported.
NOPD charged Evans Rogers and Devante Traylor with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 9-year-old.
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
The men range in age from 19 to 42 and face a variety of charges including aggravated assault, domestic abuse battery and murder.
Ten men broke out of Orleans Parish jail early Friday morning, but only three were recaptured by Monday afternoon.
NOPD crime stats show a decrease in gun arrests and seizures, but highlight significant arrests for violent crimes.
New Orleans police are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating the suspect in a hit and run on the High Rise bridge that left a woman dead earlier this month.