re: Crimestoppers CEO makes more than NOPD chief, district attorney

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BRgetthenet

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Great topic. I just heard THIS morning a Crimestoppers bulletin for a 2014 murder in New Orleans off Lasalle street.

The reward? $2500. Twenty five fricking hundred dollars for a MURDER?

These need to be $25k and people will start fricking talking. Absurd as frick if that bitch couldn't take a $100k pay cut while solving four more murders a year.

I just couldn't believe solving a murder was worth $2500 to them.

I always remembered BR Crimestoppers offering $10k for murders and $2500 for robberies and shite. That was 20 years ago. How the hell did that value go DOWN? but

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There mission is to help solve crime not stop it

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CrimeSTOPPERS

Huh. Maybe they need a new name.

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they're A LOT more non profit employees in this city making more money than her. I don't see an issue.

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E.g. Ron Forman, the CEO of the Zoo, making $600K+ and his salary comes directly from taxpayer funds. The Zoo had the audacity to have a special election to increase their property tax millage allocation for a 100 years (!) Luckily the millage wasn't approved, but there are too many non profit organizations that exist solely to fund their employees' interest.

Non-profit entities should be more accurately called non-tax paying entities. That's the only distinction between a non-profit and a business.

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E.g. Ron Forman, the CEO of the Zoo, making $600K+ and his salary comes directly from taxpayer funds

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Serious?

At least we learned that you aren't the only one in this thread who has no idea what "profit" means.

And those thousands of people are also effectively stealing money from donors/taxpayers.

The city and state could save us all a lot of money if they stopped all funding of "non profit" organizations. I don't understand why government should find them in any way.

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How much should a woman be paid to operate a tip hotline?

then make a phone call to the chief and report what anonymous tips she's received.

I'm sorry, write checks to people who provide info that lead to an arrest.

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You obviously have an agenda, maybe envy because she makes more than you. Did you get turned down for a job there?

But your statements above are just wrong.

I was on the Baton Rouge Crimestoppers board years ago when we first started up the local chapter and we didn't have any full time staff. We were all business people who served as volunteers.

The number one time consuming duty of the board members was to ask businesses to donate and help fund the operation. There is no doubt in my mind that is the New Orleans lady's primary responsibility. That's NOT an easy job.

Then there's the public relations part of the job to get the public to give tips on crimes and not be afraid of being betrayed to the criminal.

Also, there is a tremendous amount of time spent tracking the tips and their results in order to justify asking businesses for more donations.

I only served on the board for 3 years because it was a tedious, risky, thankless job that exposed my family to criminals who wanted revenge for being outted.

And Crimestoppers doesn't "write checks." The tips are anonymous. If the person giving the tip has to give his name so it can be printed on a check, the entire operation collapses. If criminals find out who has ratted on them, the tipster is in danger.

All rewards are paid in cash with some type of 'dead drop' procedure. We used a bank's drive up teller window with the person who gave the tip driving up and giving the teller a piece of paper with a certain code word and number on it. The teller would then send the envelope with the reward cash in it via the tube to the person witnessed by a second teller to verify the envelope was handed out. (The tipster was directed to use the outside lane away from the teller window for his anonymity protection.) The payments had to be coordinated with the police to make sure payments were made only when a tip resulted in an arrest.

The required IRS reporting of money taken in and paid out as rewards was enough to make most people not want the job.

You've really made yourself appear to be a jealous, small, ignorant person in this thread.

I wonder why Meg did the story.