Should Big Brother watch everything you do in the Big Easy? Council defers action yet again
Grassroots fighting a City Hall gone gaga over surveillance. […]
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New Orleans’ new camera monitoring center will soon be staffed 24/7
Right now, it’s staffed just 12 hours a day. For the first month, it was closed on the weekends. […]
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New Orleans is installing more traffic cameras, but we don’t know if they make our streets safer
When the mayor announced a major expansion of the city’s traffic cameras, he said safety was the reason. But the city hasn’t studied whether the existing cameras have reduced wrecks. Studies around the country aren’t conclusive. […]
Props to NOPD for upgrading its response to domestic violence
No more brushing incidents aside as merely personal. […]
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How will Trump’s policies affect police reforms in New Orleans? Too soon to tell.
Trump and a few of his candidates for attorney general want to cut federal funding to cities that don’t aid immigration agents. […]
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Records show alleged molestation of boy took place at a school, not a home
SciTech Academy said faculty member stopped working there the day after the alleged incident. […]
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George Carter, 15, was not a demon and not an angel, but he’s dead — and that should be our focus
George was found shot to death on Piety Street on Oct. 21. News reports picked up on his membership in Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, and subsequent reports say he may have been involved in an armed robbery. Are these the facts that really matter?
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Widespread graffiti on public structures reads like city tolerates lawlessness
Starr: “Graffiti remediation appears nowhere in the city’s budget or staffing list, nor, it seems, does it fall within Mayor Landrieu’s field of vision.” […]
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Media hypocrisy and the n-word: Was Paula Deen fired for her sins or ours?
Multi-generational white Southerners are not any more racist than racists in Colorado, New Jersey, or the new Florida of George Zimmerman. […]
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Hey, all you bloggers out there: Any word from Perricone lately?
Ouroboros: the beast that devours its tail. Wikipedia To “Jack,” an open letter: Many thanks for your comment on my Dec. 11 column about U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s resignation. Your overarching message seems to be that Letten’s disgraced former assistant Sal Perricone really did nothing wrong in commenting publicly on federal cases the office was handling. Informed feedback […]
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