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Public safety and real-time choices: the tech helping New Orleans’ first responders | Ross Bourgeois

aired Oct 15, 2026
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Summary

ROSS BOURGEOIS So the call comes into the 911 center.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of crime, bird, michael, including: every street address or set of intersecting streets are geocoded, so we know the unique geographical coordinates of where that incident is.

Key takeaways
  1. 01But the Real Time Crime Center is a 24-hour command center where we leverage technology, namely video cameras, public safety cameras throughout the city, to provide information to
  2. 02So if you imagine the, our video management system as one island and the computer-aided dispatch over at the 911 center as a second island, we have a piece of technology that bridg
  3. 03So we're leveraging the technology to make our first responders more efficient and more effective
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