New Orleans Police Under Comprehensive Federal Investigation
OPS_admin | May 17, 2010 | Comments 0
Federal authorities launched a top-to-bottom review of the troubled New Orleans Police Department on Monday, a probe requested by Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who predicted it will result in court-ordered transformation of a department beleaguered by allegations of sometimes deadly brutality.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez said the investigation will include lawyers and non-lawyers with broad experience in police issues. At a news conference with Landrieu, Perez said the probe will be independent of ongoing federal criminal investigations of the department. Those include the probe of the fatal 2005 shootings of unarmed citizens at the Danziger bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Perez, who heads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said other such independent examinations by the department have resulted in successful change at other cities’ police departments, including Los Angeles. However, he said, the level of cooperation already being displayed in New Orleans is high and the consensus for change among city officials, including new police chief Ronal Serpas, is unprecedented.
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