re: BRAVE contracts tied to mayor's administration suspended

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Is there a link to this story? I'm unfamiliar with this one.

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literally just dropped a "witch hunt"

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Metro Council member Buddy Amoroso is calling for Mayor Sharon Weston Broome to come before the Metro Council next week and answer questions about the controversies swirling around the BRAVE program.

In an item placed on the council’s Aug. 9 agenda, Amoroso is asking for details about why Broome’s administration deleted an item from the Metro Council’s Feb. 22 meeting that would have amended the city-parish contract with LSU to coordinate research activities for the BRAVE program.

“It was really kind of strange,” says Amoroso, who recalls being puzzled by the action at the time. “There was an agenda item to give LSU $125,000 for BRAVE and at the beginning of the meeting we got word that the administration wanted to have that item deleted. That was really kind of strange because typically you would defer something like that but not delete it. That raised a red flag.”

At the time, council members were told the administration was going to revisit its contract with LSU, which, since the BRAVE program began in 2013, has played a key role in crunching the crime data used to identify trouble spots and target potential perpetrators. The contract was never renewed.

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Gravy is gonna make a great preacher one day. He has a natural ability to spin any arrangement of words to sound the way he wants "his people" to believe.

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