Could more surveillance cams be on the way in La Crosse?

Police are operating about three dozen downtown now

The downtown La Crosse cameras are up and running. About three dozen of them.

Could more be on the way?

Assistant police chief Rob Abraham says certain neighborhoods could also see cameras getting installed. 

If neighborhoods that are requesting it … we’d be open to that, but we certainly aren’t going to just be (putting) cameras everywhere,” Abraham said. “We realize the sensitivity of that, as well.”

Organizers of La Crosse’s downtown Safe-Cam project gave the enterprise an official dedication Tuesday and lauded the private efforts to raise money for the surveillance camera system. 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars for the cameras was privately raised. The police are operating them.  

Abraham says the project needed to be community-driven to be successful.

“Having the police kind of push for that, while I think it would have probably eventually worked, there’s more wide acceptance when the community is asking for it.”