Louisville is adding surveillance cameras across the city's parks, and officials say they're an effective way of keeping criminals away from the the communal gathering places.
"We found once the camera goes in, after 1 or 2 weeks of folks seeing the unit with the blue flashing light, the activities kind of move on," Louisville Parks and Recreation director Jason Canuel told WDRB.
The city is renting four mobile camera unites that are being circulated throughout any of Louisville's 123 parks that have seen a spike in vandalism or trespassing.
The cameras are always monitored even outside of normal park hours, and monitors can also speak to people through the camera.
"The person on the other end actually monitoring will give a verbal cue, 'Hey, you're being watched. Please vacate the park,'" Canuel said.
Aundre Core, who lives near Huston Quin Park, has heard the warnings since the camera unit went up a few weeks ago.
"It'll start saying things like, 'Get out of the Park. You're trespassing.' Or, 'You're on camera," Core said.
Metro Parks said it will continue to rotate the four camera units across the city where people are observing issues.
