Criminal Justice

Often there’s little glory in doing the right thing. It can’t be easy to step down from a powerful political office. But Eddie Jordan did just that today. If we take him at his word, he did it for the good of New Orleans. In January I said, “Shame on you, Mayor Nagin, Superintendent Riley, […]

Remember that retired teacher who got beat up on Bourbon Street shortly after Katrina? Sure you do, it was on television all over the world, a blatant example of police brutality and a huge embarrassment to the city of New Orleans. Well, the latest news is that the accused officer was acquitted. Some will say […]

This just in via Karen Gadbois… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW ORLEANS CITIZENS TAKE TO THE STREETS TO DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY EDDIE JORDAN New Orleans citizens, fed up with the resurgence of violent crime in their city, will stage a protest in front of the Cabildo on Jackson Square on Monday, July 16 […]

These lyrics keep going through my head. I’m on the creep, with no sleep I ain’t trynna rest till the enemy six feet It’s game time, and I’m ready to play Gimme my remote and my remote is my K I spray with it, I’m from uptown I gotta stay wit it When we murder, […]

Shelley Midura of the New Orleans City Council has asked our Distict Attorney Eddie Jordan to step down. I’m going to reproduce it here in full because her staff sent it to me directly (along with many others I’m sure) so I can claim as direct a line as the mainstream media: July 12, 2007 […]

Yesterday, the District Attorney dropped the charges against the suspect in a quintuple murder because the witness had disappeared. Today, the NOPD located the witness.

A new phrase has been added to my vocabulary: nolle prosequi, Latin for “unwilling to pursue.” The District Attorney said nolle prosequi about David Bonds’ case last week. Bonds was accused of killing Dinerral Shavers. I never knew Dinerral, but I was disturbed by news of his murder, which I wrote about in December. The […]

I read in the paper last weekend that B-Stupid copped a plea. In exchange for pleading guilty in federal court Thursday to drug-trafficking and gun crimes and his agreement in state court that he was involved with a friend’s murder, a 22-year-old New Orleans man will face a possible sentence of 25 years instead of […]

A co-worker’s son spent last Friday night in jail here in New Orleans. Of course, people have to deal with our dysfunctional system all the time, and their voices are usually not heard, or they are ignored. But it just so happens that my co-worker is a writer and a blogger, so you can read […]

I was just talking to a lady who works a janitorial detail here at the University. Her son, Jermaine Wise, was murdered last Mardi Gras by none other than B Stupid, aka Ivory Harris. Remember him? He was public enemy #1 until he got arrested March 20th. She pointed out he’s being charged with second […]

Like it or not — and I don’t like it, not one bit — I seem to have become some kind of spokesperson on the subject of violent crime. I didn’t ask for this, I don’t relish it, and I’m not prepared for it. Indeed the very prospect makes my stomach churn. Violent crime is […]

Though I toyed briefly with the stage name “Stupid B” when I was the vocalist for The Submersibles, I have no connection whatsoever with the recently apprehended “B Stupid.” Just a point of clarification, in case anyone was confused.

Tag: Criminal Justice

Jordan the Hero

Another Failed Prosecution

Citizens Demand Jordan’s Resignation Monday Morning

Bloodletting

Midura to Jordan: Please Resign

The Mind Boggles

Nolle Prosequi

B Stupid Cops a Plea

A Night in Jail

Endless Outrages

Like It or Not

Stupid B Stupid