French Quarter safety plan could include cameras that can spot guns through clothing
Cameras That Can Detect Guns Through Clothing?
The article itself does a good job of highlighting that it is not clear that any camera today could do this at any significant level of distance.
Sure, but like John says the range is (currently) limited, and I'm not sure how it would benefit the French quarter unless they were deployed at only at choke points and had someone monitoring live to interpret the images.
I tried to find a demo that appears, from what I know, a reasonable portrayal of the technology:
The Digital Barriers ThruVis exists, though it has limitations (~30 ft range, size, IP52 rating) for something that would be deployed in a city security style deployment like what was described for New Orleans.
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