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  1. April 25, 2011

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    New Statesman - No limits to the law in New Orleans

    claytoncubitt:

    “That the police force in New Orleans is “a significant threat to the safety of the public”, as the DoJ says, is obvious. But the same problems can be seen all over the South, from Miami to Mississippi to Alabama; and the same nationwide, according to Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan, who wrote recently: “Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public.” [emphasis mine.]

    In New Orleans the culture of systemic brutality is old and deep. In 1970 a producer friend went to sign the great pianist James Booker, then in Orleans Parish Prison. He came into the warden’s office shackled, walking on his knees. In the mid-1990s what Howell calls “a series of horrific events” culminated in roughly 20 police officers being prosecuted for major felonies, state and federal: rape, arson, kidnapping, bank robbery. “We had a cop who was doing bank robberies in his lunch hour,” she says. “We have two now on death row, one of whom is there - a first for the US - for having a citizen murdered for filing a complaint against him for misconduct.” (via brookpete)

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