Category
Criminal Justice
Asking why and how, and what needs to be done.
Council approves earlier Quarter curfew over objections saying it encourages profiling
Earlier French Quarter curfew for youths gets mixed reaction; Council set to vote Thursday
Exonerated death row inmate John Thompson digs for the roots of New Orleans crime epidemic
"Now, you can’t even tell who’s the child and who’s the parent. We lost that structure, and instead we got babies having babies. We need to address that." -- John Thompson
Sheriff: Jail will have more inmates in 2012
Deputies working private, off-duty details pay into fund used by sheriff for questionable discretionary spending
A lucrative private-security program staffed by deputies provides Sheriff Marlin Gusman with about $100,000 in discretionary money that he uses for questionable expenditures.
