What can the Louisiana Governor do about crime in BR and NO?

Plenty if they really mean it.

Well the current Governor pushed prison reform, let thousands of felons out of jail, and is pushing hard to reduce the sentences of convicted felons right now.

The current Governor let the State Police get out of control. Their scandals are a blight on the state.

If Landry undoes any of that it will be a huge help.

Do it first day.

You'd have 4 years to be able to point to the results.

Hire Giuliani as a consultant. Problem solved. Might have to hire some new police and fire some old ones who aren't doing their job effectively. NYC had lots of those before Giuliani.

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Mississippi tried this with the hellhole that is Jackson. Limited by the Courts because certain elements didn't like being held to account.

Send in state troopers. They probably have 10 sitting on I-20 between Shreveport and Ruston right now. I nominate them.

Landry? It's not so much what he "can" do as it is "will" he do anything substantive.

First, you have to assume that he's not jittery about being seen in public dictating to a black female.

Solving the crime situations?

Just in the realm of the rather nonviolent electoral process, we had a Secretary of State who folded his tent and discreetly withdrew from the political scene rather than placing himself in the line of fire resulting from such future optics.

In this instance it would involve eventually having to remind - again - our own recalcitrant, resistant, entitled, Sandra Wilson (Registrar) of the over 70,000 illegitimate names we found during our abortive recall project (a residual of A.C.O.R.N. when they were rolling here).

Although nothing has changed, imagine how this looks to those involved in the upcoming elections who insist our elections are above board and sacrosanct.

Who among the candidates - including Landry - is going to tell Wilson that these rolls will be cleaned even if it takes the Governor, Secretary of State and a number of State Police with yellow crime scene tape to come down here and see that it's done.

The only politician currently running who seemed to be serious about the voter rolls is Brandon Trosclair. Not nearly enough of them.

This version of gutlessness among the Repubs might one day have its own term: the Ardoin Syndrome.

Will Landry do it?

Can only go by past performance.

As when he disappeared like Mandrake the Magician and didn't reappear - like a MeerKat - until after the crisis was over with our historical monuments.

That he'll do neither with both cities, for crime or anything else other than loud statements to the media "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," but no meaningful action.

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He can theoretically frick with the DAs and judges in Caddo, EBR, and Orleans who are not prosecuting criminals or giving them release with little to no bail.

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Wouldn't this be more in the A.G.'s wheelhouse?

The Gov could raise a stink about it to try to get those POS DA's to do their job, but the local media is not going to help in any way to hold the DA's accountable.

If Caddo and EBR have a home rule charter like Orleans.....he can't really even frick with them effectively.