New Orleans police getting sweeping overhaul (federal)

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Source: CBS News

NEW ORLEANS - A court-supervised agreement Tuesday to overhaul the New Orleans Police Department will require the troubled agency to implement the most sweeping police reforms ever negotiated by the Justice Department.

Attorney General Eric Holder joined Mayor Mitch Landrieu in announcing the signing of a federal consent decree designed to clean up a police force that has been plagued by decades of corruption and mismanagement. The department came under renewed scrutiny following a string of police shootings in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The 124-page agreement spells out a series of strict requirements for overhauling the police department's policies and procedures for use of force, training, interrogations, searches and arrests, recruitment and supervision.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57479016/new-orleans-police-getting-sweeping-overhaul/?tag=mncol;lst;1

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About time.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I thought the N.O. Police were already under a court order

even before Katrina.
Which, if true, apparently did not work out so well.

[nolabear]

2. Starting in about 1700.

Trust me on this.

[intheflow]

3. 'Bout time. n/t

[Heywood J]

4. I watched this last night. It's a fucking PR joke.

As if retraining will somehow get rid of all of this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/us/plan-to-reform-new-orleans-police-department.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Officers interviewing suspects will be prohibited from using violence or threatening to harm the suspect or family members

Sickening and absolutely despicable. "Confess, or we'll beat the shit out of you and harm your family!" Yeah, a little sensitivity training will get rid of "decades of corruption and mismanagement".