Report Finds Wide Abuses by Police in New Orleans

[snopes]

Justice Department officials have released the findings of a 10-month investigation into New Orleans' Police Department, revealing a force that is profoundly and alarmingly troubled and setting in motion a process for its wholesale reform.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/us/18orleans.html

[GenYus234]

What is a wide abuse? Is it worse than a narrow abuse?

[firefighter_raven]

Originally Posted by GenYus234

What is a wide abuse? Is it worse than a narrow abuse?

Assuming they are referring to it being an issue with the majority of the NOPD and not just restricted to certain portions of it (like Rampart scandal in the LAPD where it was mainly restricted to one unit)

If I remember correctly wasn't the NOPD known to be extremely corrupt and abusive prior to Katrina?

[AnglRdr]

Former police officer David Warren was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison this morning for the shooting of 31-year-old Henry Glover in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Former officer Greg McRae, who admitted burning a car parked on the Algiers levee that contained Glover's body, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...ers_recei.html

[Ryda Wong, EBfCo.]

Holy dog. How horrific.