Pinstriped Wall Update–New Orleans

A few items ago I blogged about prosecutorial misconduct sinking convictions as angry judges freed, or ordered new trials for, the defendants involved.  Well, what’s been sunk so far are rowboats compared to this: In the Costa Concordia of reversals a federal judge has ordered new trials for the New Orleans cops implicated in covering up the police massacre of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  The judge called the prosecutors conduct “grotesque,” much as the headline in the accompanying article characterizes the police shootings as “notorious.”  What a day for the criminal justice system.

Stop and Frisk

The “stop and frisk” policing tactic is currently very high profile, and a double-edged sword organizationally, since crime gets driven down, community resentment gets driven up and a fine 4th amendment line gets walked and, as recent court rulings regarding the NYPD have held, are sometimes crossed,  (Posting this article is also a test of whether a public URL from this particular publication persists, so the answer is no if you  click above and nothing happens.)