re: Shortage of Baton Rouge detectives driving concern among residents

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The vast majority of the parish’s homicides happen within city limits,

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Better Together.

I wouldn't blame Hillar for the weak sentences judges in BR give criminals. He does what he can to put criminals behind bars

He's probably in the hot seat now for prosecuting black criminals for committing crimes

you just called out the entire state of Louisiana

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How can you simultaneously hate cops/fuel the BLM movement and beg for more cops? I thought they was the devil?

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See Baltimore.

That's the lunacy of the movement and those involved.

Maybe if starting pay was higher, they could find more qualified applicants. Maybe they'd have the money to hire more applicants if they weren't scamming the taxpayers by billing obscene amounts of OT pay (like 40 hours of OT/week every week) via double-dipping and straight up fraud. Maybe the officers wouldn't need to work so much OT to make ends meet if their pay was higher. Maybe they wouldn't need officers to work so much OT to keep the peace if they had more officers...

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There is one poster who hates Hillar. I like the guy, and have since he was my lawyer in '02. Always tell him hello, and spend some time talking to him. He flat out does a good job, and from the hours he's put in learning things since he has been DA, IMHO, he'd be a good fit for higher office

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Hillar is the least of the problem with BR's crime. The issues are:
1. a lack of officers
2. a lack of emphesis on investigating property crime
3. over-emphasis on policing to generate revenue (i.e. inspection stickers, DUI check points, speed traps, etc)
4. a lack of witnesses willing to testify due to
5. a lack of ability for BRPD to protect witnesses from reprisal
6. corrupt/racist judges that give overly lenient sentences to career criminals to placate their voter base
7. a majority voter base that supports corrupt/racist officials that in turn protect career criminals from being taken off of the streets permanently.

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Now that’s just not true. The object isn’t to just make an arrest, it is to present a case that is prosecutable and that means proper evidence collection, good interviewing and proper documentation. There are detectives who believe “frick it, I made an arrest and now it is the DA’s problem.” They don’t last long as an investigator. It isn’t just your arrest rate but successful convictions that mark you as a good or shitty detective.

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Yeah, I clearly didn't get my point across well at all.

For the purposes of their metrics, they stop at an arrest just because they need a logical place to stop and hand over the responsibility so they can say 'okay, we're done' and move on to other cases. I didn't mean to imply that they weren't trying to build an ironclad case up to that point. I was just trying to point out that they check it off their list at the arrest with the implicit understanding that they have tried to build as ironclad a case as they could to hand over to the DA so he can send the guy up the river, not that they were doing the bare minimum to get an arrest and move on. Everything the detectives do is with the intent to secure a conviction.

I’m truly amazed they have a 45% clearance rate seeing how witnesses don’t speak to the police.

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Are you the dumbass that complained about Hillar not firing that crazy black female judge in the thread a couple of months back? The DA has NOTHING to do with the judiciary. They are an elected (in LA) independent body just as is the Public Defenders Office. That is the basis of our entire justice system. You need to get back into high school Civics class. The fact that your vote counts the same as mine is troubling to say the least.

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You are about as far off as possible. I'm sure you've logged more courtroom time then me though. Carry on. And public defenders are not elected. I'm not sure if that is what you meant.