New Orleans Cops are Utterly Corrupt

The Department of Justice has concluded its investigation into New Orleans’s notoriously corrupt police force and concluded that it is so bad, so rotten from top to bottom, that the police have been placed under the supervision and authority of a fed judge. Next, the feds will take control of the city’s hellish jails. The New Statesman’s report on NOLA’s version of justice sounds like something out of Baghdad or a Mexican border town or a wild west novel about corrupt frontier towns. Or Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Arizona.

Read the rest.  Via Robert Wilson on FB.  Having been to New Orleans I think it a lovely city with friendly people (in some sections).  In other sections… well let me just say that while Chris Tilling and I were walking around there during SBL we were both taken aback at the depravity on display for all, including small children, to see.  Yes- little children could see things grown adults shouldn’t see outside the privacy of their own homes.

That the cops there are corrupt is no surprise.  At all.  You would have to be corrupt to stomach parts of the place.