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In loving memory of Landry Anglin and Devin Myers

and for all lives lost due to senseless gun violence

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The Time To Act Is Now

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On Sunday, May 1, 2022, Landry Anglin, 13, was shot inside her home. Anglin, an eighth-grader at Caddo Middle Magnet was sitting with her family when a stray bullet went through the house and struck the teenage girl, killing her. Chief Wayne Smith said that day two vehicles appeared to be chasing each other down Erie Street, during that chase they began shooting. One of the stray bullets traveled west and struck the home hitting Anglin who was inside the residence. The shooting occurred just a little before 2:30 p.m.
 
When first responders made it to her home on Fairfield Avenue they found the teen unresponsive with a gunshot wound to
her back. Anglin was rushed to a local hospital, but she was later pronounced dead.
 
Devin Myers, 17, was fatally shot in the Queensborough neighborhood in Shreveport on March 3, 2022. The junior was a starter on the basketball team.  Police got the call just before 12:15 p.m. March 3 to the 3500 block of Lilian Street in Shreveport’s
Queensborough neighborhood. Officials say Devin Myers, 17, was found shot dead on the street near his home. Myers was shot five times in the back, according to Shreveport police officers at the scene. The junior was a starter on the basketball team.

“Devin was a great kid, a great basketball player, a great student,” Huntington principal Dr. Matt Mitchell said. “He had a bright future. It’s a terrible loss.”

Goals
The Goals of the Anglin/Myers Public Safety Initiative aim to bring justice to the lost lives of so many affected by gun violence in our community by supporting law enforcement and the communities they protect with state-of-the-art technology resources that are proven to reduce crime and ensure that random acts of violence can be reduced across our cities. 
 

  • Increase safety camera coverage in high-crime and/or high-traffic areas of town.
     

  • Increase the number of license plate readers (LPRs) along our interstates and highways to locate subjects of interest.
     

  • Implement gun detection software on crime cameras in schools and large places of gathering to expedite police response time to individuals out to cause harm. 

TAKE ACTION!

LECJF, in collaboration with our law enforcement partners, is working with local business owners and residents to place cameras in high-priority areas. Purchase, fund or request a camera today! 

Support innovative tech and software solutions for our law enforcement partners.

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More info coming soon!

LECJ will be updating this page with information in the coming weeks. Please check back with us or use our existing action opportunities to support crime prevention in your home community! 

  • Launch new website

    • Status: Completed
       

  • Integrate gun detection software to existing cameras

    • Status: Completed The Foundation has entered into a 3-year agreement with ZeroEyes, an AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness software company.
       

    • About ZeroEyes’ AI software: The software will be layered onto dozens of existing digital security cameras located in strategic areas throughout the city. If a gun is identified, images are instantly shared with the ZeroEyes Operations Center (ZOC), staffed 24/7/365 by specially trained U.S. military and law enforcement veterans. If these experts determine that the threat is valid, they dispatch alerts and actionable intelligence – including visual description, gun type,and last known location – to local law enforcement and staff as quickly as 3 to 5 seconds from detection. The company, founded by Navy SEALs, Special Operations military veterans, and elite technologists, says they are living out their ongoing mission to protect and serve our country.

 

  • Launch a new workflow management platform

    • Status: Completed The LECJ Foundation has imbedded a workflow software onto its website that enhances the user experience, provides automatic notification updates to the user as their camera request(s) are triaged, and serves as a project management database to expedite camera installations.

 

  • Partner with local camera vendors and installation companies to track maintenance and upkeep of active cameras

    • Status: Completed
       

  • Identify defunct cameras that need to be removed from service

    • Status: Ongoing
       

  • Identify best locations for license plate readers (LPRs)

    • Status: Ongoing

Phase 3 (July 2024 – December 2024)

  • Replace 25% of defunct security cameras in Baton Rouge

    • Status: Completed
       

  • Add 5 LPRs on roadways throughout Baton Rouge

    • Status: Completed
       

  • Identify 100 locations in high-crime areas to host cameras through the federal program Project Safe Neighborhood.

    • Status: In Progress
       

  • Plan for 2024 

Phase 4 (July 2024 – December 2024)

  • Identify additional tech and software needs that can assist law enforcement in creative ways.

    • Status: In Progress
       

  • Utilize Project Safe Neighborhood funding to install crime cameras in high-priority areasAdd 5 LPRs on roadways throughout Baton Rouge.

    • Status: In Progress

Partners

The Page/Rice Public Safety Initiative is partially funded through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this initiative (including, without limitation, policies, procedures, and any services or tools provided).

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