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What do conveyor belt duty and car accident response have The conclusion is clear: Thousands of hours of police time
in common? Both practices tie up armed and trained police could be spent on anti-crime activities if our officers were
officers for thousands of hours each year. This is the equivalent of better deployed. The NOPD itself estimates at least 3,000
scores of additional police, perhaps as many as one hundred or officer man-hours could be saved per year if some car
more. And the work performed by these officers could just accident investigations were handled by civilians instead of
as easily have been done by trained civilians. You do not cops. With violent crime rising, taxpayers need to demand
need a gun and a badge to measure skid marks on the road after these changes. We simply cannot afford to waste the time of
two cars crash. our brave officers on tasks better handled by trained civilians.
This is not a new problem. It was documented in a report issued Robert Gage Counts is the Managing Editor of the Crime Safety Reporter.
in 2014 which listed dozens of jobs performed by the NOPD He lives in the Fontenbleau area of New Orleans
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Why does the Ethics Review Board seek to replace Quatrevaux ? p7
by Jeff Crouere The citys Ethics Review Board is seeking Clearly, the best person for this job is Ed Quatrevaux, so why
applicants to replace Nola Inspector General is the Ethics Review Board wasting precious tax dollars to search for
Ed Quatrevaux. True, the board has the a replacement? It is time for concerned citizens of New Orleans to
legal power to do this, but one has to wonder: contact the members of the Board, listed below, and ask them why
Why are they doing it ? they are doing this. The Boards members are:
Through the end of 2015, the IG has saved Allen Miller, Phelps Dunbar: allen.miller@phelps.com
the city over $80 million. In 2016 alone James Brown, Liskow & Lewis: jabrown@liskow.com
he uncovered $12.5 million in waste and Rev. Brandon Boutin, Greater St. Stephen Full
fraud. He found $25 million in savings Gospel Baptist Church: contact@2bministries.com
at the Louis Armstrong Airport and he documented how Sewerage Michael Cowan, Loyola University: mcowan@loyno.edu
and Water Board employees were stealing and selling brass fixtures. Joe Ricks, Xavier University: jmricks@xula.edu
Howard Rodgers, Council on Aging: hrodgers@nocoa.org
Because he has uncovered so much government fraud it is
unclear why the Ethics Review Board wants to spend $115,000 of The public deserves an answer to this question before the Board
our tax dollars to find a replacement for Quatrevaux, whose spends $115,000 on a search to replace Quatrevaux.
term expires in late 2017. Why dont they just renew his term?
Of course, if Quatrevaux did not uncover fraud he should Jeff Crouere is a New Orleans native. He is the host of Ringside Politics,
be replaced. But the opposite is true here. Quatrevaux succeeded which airs on television at 7:30 p.m. Friday. and also 10:00 p.m. Sunday, on
in every way. Indeed, his office has received high marks from WLAE-TV 32, a PBS station. Jeff also has a radio show that airs weekdays,7 to
11 in the morning, on WGSO 990 AM Radio. For more info on Jeff visit his web
peer review studies - and from Quality Assurance Reviews. site at www.ringsidepolitics.com. E-mail him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com.
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