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Author: Arthur Hunter Jr.

Usted puede hacer cumplir la ley de inmigración de maneras profesionales

December 17, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025
La forma en que se aplica la ley es tan importante como la ley misma.

You can enforce immigration law in professional ways

December 9, 2025 Updated December 9, 2025
How you enforce the law is just as important as the law itself.

Whatever we want to achieve in our city can be undermined by the lack of public safety

October 5, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025
In recent months, public officials rushed to the microphone to take credit when the crime rate dropped. Will they now rush back to the microphone and take blame when the crime rate rises?

Keep the Guard in reserve. Build on what works.

September 25, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025
If a limited deployment is ordered, there are ways to do this right, Arthur Hunter writes. Guard personnel could assume tasks to increase public safety by putting more officers on streets, and improve our infrastructure by attacking the places that invite crime.

Ensuring we all feel safe and are stably employed

January 15, 2025 Updated January 16, 2025
“We have much work to do,” Hunter writes, “to ensure that an anti-terrorist component is part of the planning process for every special event that attracts thousands – Mardi Gras, festivals and holiday celebrations, even our Sunday second-line parades.”

Helping young people leap hurdles

October 8, 2024 Updated October 21, 2024
A group of talented young African American men had little hope that the city could help them - until they learned the ways that the city could change.

We deserve better.

August 5, 2024 Updated August 5, 2024
How New Orleans can generate revenue and support small businesses through a city-owned centralized payment-processing system

We are not helpless in the face of climate change.

May 28, 2024 Updated June 17, 2024
If we bring the right people to the table and think outside the box, we can reduce insurance rates, bring down heat levels within our city, put our youth to work, have strong roofs, dry streets, cooler neighborhoods and be a national leader in climate adaptation.

Paintbrush, iPad, or Glock?

April 1, 2024 Updated April 1, 2024

We cannot reduce crime and be safe without remaking Tulane and Broad

October 2, 2023 Updated November 27, 2023
As the jail population climbs toward its maximum capacity – 1,250 – as set by the City Council, it’s clear that we must take a close look at what happens inside the Criminal District Courthouse.

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