Shell-Shocked, Black Youth, Guns, Death, Police, and Juries in New Orleans
New Orleans Follow me on where I’m going with this. In the smaller-footprint, post-Katrina New Orleans, I do my citizen’s duty and am part of the jury pool every two years, and this May is my month...
View ArticleA Juror’s Duty to Acquit or Convict on a Lesser Charge to Reform Criminal...
Prisoners in Louisiana New Orleans Jury service is a citizen’s obligation in the United States. In the smaller City of New Orleans my fellow jurors and I are called to the jury pool every two years...
View ArticleCriminalization of America’s Poor and Minorities on Trivial Beefs
Vancouver Over the last couple of days while traveling about I read on my Kindle a new book called, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by budding sociologist, Alice Goffman, about a...
View ArticleCommunity Organizations Stabilize Urban Neighborhoods & Reduce Crime
New Orleans We told you so, and we’ve been telling the same story for more than 50 years: community organizations stabilize and improve neighborhoods. It seems almost ridiculous to have to state...
View ArticleCameras, Churches and Crime
New Orleans Recently, two kids managed to grab-and-run with a couple of hundred bucks at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse as one created a distraction and other jumped the counter. The neighboring grocery...
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