New Orleans' police force secretly used continual facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

NOPD crime stats show a decrease in gun arrests and seizures, but highlight significant arrests for violent crimes.

New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and protect citizens' civil rights.

The Louisiana governor bashed the escape as symptomatic of a struggling criminal justice system, highlighting trial delays and a lack of security.

The tragedy shocked New Orleans and has since reignited a need to focus on domestic violence. Now, the New Orleans Police Department’s Special Victims Division is trying to prevent future horrors and its new unit is already helping victims get resources.

One person was killed in a Hollygrove shooting Sunday afternoon, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Gunfire was reported to police at 1:40 p.m. near the intersection of Edinburgh and Eagle streets. There, officers found a person wounded in a car. Paramedics declared the victim dead on scene, police said.

Network of face recognition surveillance cameras distinguishes New Orleans as the worst abuser of this technology in the nation