NEW ORLEANS -- Many of the crime cameras installed to keep watch on New Orleans neighborhoods are not in working order, according to a report from city hall exclusively obtained by the I-Team.

The city purchased 213 crime cameras, but nearly half of them are out of order. Some neighborhoods have few working cameras at all.

About half the city-owned crime cameras were knocked out of commission due to the fierce wind and rain from Hurricane Gustav.

A new report indicated that only 18 of the 107 cameras broken after storm have been repaired, all of which are in police districts 1 and 3.

In the fourth police district, which includes Algiers, 24 cameras are mounted on telephone poles. The report said 14 were broken in the storm and none have been repaired.

In the fifth district, which includes the Ninth Ward and parts of Gentilly, there are 32 cameras. Gustav knocked out 21 of them and none have been repaired. Last May, someone was shot and killed right underneath one of those cameras.

In parts of Uptown and Central City -- what police call the sixth district -- 29 of the 40 cameras were knocked out and none have been repaired.

In New Orleans East, 14 of the 21 cameras have been broken and not repaired. The report said nine of 25 cameras in the eighth police district are broken and not repaired. This area includes the French Quarter.

In the second police district, one of the 27 cameras has been knocked out and not repaired.

The Metropolitan Crime Commission said the city has to fix the cameras so that people don't lose confidence in the criminal justice system.

Howard Griffin is holding down the fort at the TLC Car Wash, which has cameras of its own. Those cameras recorded a shootout long before the city decided to install the cameras all over town.

"We should do something about it to get it fixed," Griffin said.

The city said it opens to have all crime cameras back on line in the next 60 to 90 days.

This week, police superintendent Warren Riley told members of the City Council that the crime camera program is working. He asked for $1 million to add to the program in 2009.