To 'save the city' NOPD advisers suggested massive shift of detectives to patrol duty

What I would do if I wanted to drive the police force numbers even lower.

Will the DA’s clowns continue being activist pricks and avoid prosecuting criminals appropriately?

Will the city police still be under a federal consent decree?

If yes…what’s the point?

Unless you suspended habeus corpus and allowed cops to summarily execute offenders like the Duterte’s Philippines, this would do nothing but make things worse.

How do you save something that is already dead

This is not possible

Nola.com link sucks.....

Here are the major recommendations that are going to ruffle some feathers.

Police consultant’s plan ‘to save the city’ calls for massive reassignment of NOPD officers to patrol duty


212 commissioned officers who could be reassigned to patrol work “is much higher than what is actually being considered. ... As the superintendent mentioned last week, that number is more in the range of 75-100.”

somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the New Orleans police force not currently patrolling city streets will resume those entry-level duties soon

Under Pichardo’s proposed plan, a number of officers currently working administrative, general assignment or district detective roles would soon find themselves back in patrol cars. So, too, would 40 officers currently assigned to the NOPD’s Special Operations Division, which includes motorcycle officers, horse-mounted officers and K-9 officers.

Court liaison officers, public records officers, cold case detectives and as many as 10 Public Integrity Bureau detectives currently assigned to investigate complaints against police also would be reassigned to patrol work under Pichardo’s proposed plan.

Among Pichardo’s other recommendations:

Begin the process of providing “take-home” vehicles to patrol officers, perhaps an incentive-based plan under which districts with the lowest 911 response times or the fewest department vehicle accidents would be the first to receive new vehicles

Present more cases -- especially gun and narcotics cases -- to the local U.S. Attorney’s Office to be prosecuted federally, an indication of dissatisfaction with the prosecutorial appetite or acumen of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams’ office

That detectives assigned to investigate internal affairs be rotated out of the Public Integrity Bureau to new assignments every two years

That all disciplinary hearings for officers against whom a PIB complaint was sustained be conducted within 60 days
That department recruiters “review the folders of recently disqualified candidates, to determine if the vetting process is too stringent”

That each district captain be issued a $1200 debit card funded by the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation to enable the purchase of “breakfast, lunch, BBQ, etc.” for the officers under their command

An allocation of “Captain’s Days,” vacation days that district captains could grant to officers under their command for exceptional performance, dedication or accomplishments

So, more cops will be out there watching things go on they can't or aren't allowed to deal with, plus less cops will be trying to find murderers and such. Smart.

Good time for NOPD detectives to GTFO. Lots of jobs out there in other departments.

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Good time for NOPD detectives to GTFO. Lots of jobs out there in other departments.

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not everyone wants to just run and hide from their problems in Alaska Rog

So you force detectives to go back on patrol. You then piss off the detectives and they’ll look the other way or quit. Demoralizing the few cops you have is great strategy, lol.

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NOPD’s Special Operations Division, which includes motorcycle officers

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NOPD Motorcycle Cops generally help themselves first.