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The size of the properties – often just one storey, on stilts – lends a sense of light and space rare in inner cities. Some buildings, however, are still just a frontage, the skeletal rooms under reconstruction behind, and the scars of Katrina can be seen everywhere. Spray-painted codes on exterior walls, originally to indicate to rescuers whether there were still residents within, are now both a badge of solidarity, and proof that this is still a relatively poor district.
Treme is best experienced by day and on foot – travel light. You may be able to stay at one of handful of new cheap boutique hotels. I spent a happy Saturday wandering round alone, hassled only by a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Begin at St Louis No 1, a short hop from the French Quarter, and one of the oldest of New Orleans’s numerous cemeteries. Dennis Hopper shot the LSD prostitute rape scene in Easy Rider here (without permission from the – understandably miffed – authorities), and 19th-century voodoo queen Marie Laveau is buried within.

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In a move that proponents said will trim New Orleans court dockets and give police more time to deal with major crimes, the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously yesterday to designate marijuana possession, prostitution, and two other relatively minor crimes as municipal offenses, giving police the option to issue a summons rather than make an arrest, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
If you get picked up for marijuana possession or prostitution in New Orleans, police no longer will have to arrest you and take you to jail. Until now, the crimes have been illegal only under state laws, meaning police had to arrest offenders and take them in for booking. Because defendants no longer will be jailed, even for a few hours, the city will be spared the expense of housing and feeding them, and the defendants’ own lives will not be needlessly disrupted, council members said. The other crimes involved are “flight from an officer” by the operator of a motor vehicle or boat if a police officer has …

See the full article from “The Crime Report”

He says they’ll have a full contingency in the neighborhoods as well, and will have zero tolerance for those firing a weapon or using fireworks.
“There will be no lax enforcement in New Orleans. We will be very vigilant. We will be aggressive in the neighborhoods to make sure that residents are safe and that we bring in the New Year in a safe manner,” Defillo says.
Listen to Don Ames’ conversation with Defillo:
   
In recent months, police, prosecutors and politicians have taken steps to put fewer minor offenders behind bars, in the hope that it will free up resources to attack more serious crime.
The initiative culminated in city ordinances passed in December that give officers the option of handing out court summonses to anyone suspected of prostitution or marijuana possession, in lieu of hauling them off to jail.

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Small-time violators such as pot smokers and prostitutes are less likely to land in jail, freeing resources to fight serious crime.
Share Topics Crimes Prisons Justice System See more topics » X New Orleans Meteorological Disasters Police Arrests Prostitution U.S. Department of Justice Laws Louisiana Criminals Disasters Hurricanes Hurricane Katrina (2005) Natural Disasters Orleans Parish American Civil Liberties Union Constitutional Issues By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times 7:59 p.m. CST, December 25, 2010 E-mail Print Text Size la-na-new-orleans-crime-20101226 Reporting from New Orleans — In the squad room of the New Orleans Police Department’s 6th District, a large red square is painted on the wall behind the lectern, as if a cop had acted on some Abstract Expressionist impulse. It is a wordless reminder to officers here, one that could serve as a new motto for the city’s criminal justice system. “It means, ‘We don’t arrest squares,’ ” said Sgt. Yolanda Jenkins, a community outreach specialist. By “squares,” she means the everyday ci …

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… Asked to explain an email in which he told a favored contractor that an industry conference offered a “chance for me to pimp your guy’s stuff,” Meffert said he meant it as an opportunity to promote the city’s accomplishments — which seems equally galling in light of how little the Nagin Administration has accomplished post-Katrina. “I did a hell of a lot of pimping for the city,” he deadpanned.
  Poor Meffert. He took a 50 percent pay cut to take a job that enabled him to help his friend and former business associate, Mark St. Pierre, score a multi-million-dollar crime camera contract from the city — but, like aspiring rapper DJay in the film Hustle & Flow, he’s still gotta get money for his Cadillacs — not to mention his yacht, strippers and some first-class vacations for himself and Nagin.

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Since then, scandal-watchers have been treated to a seemingly unprecedented number of salacious antics involving underage prostitutes, text-messaged crotch shots and life-size Kama Sutra sculptures, which have turned the lives of some of the biggest names in sport and showbiz, and one second-rate royal, into tabloid headlines.
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This category poses the biggest challenge because there are just so many soccer stars who seem to think the world is their oyster (i.e. their own personal brothel). Many of this year’s “footie scandals” broke mere months before the World Cup. First, after a judge lifted a gag order on the story, tabloids in the U.K. went wild over allegations that England soccer captain John Terry had hopped into the sack with Chelsea teammate and best friend Wayne Bridge’s former girlfriend, Vanessa Perroncel.
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Not to be outdone, the French squad had its own cheating scandal but with a particularly salacious twist, as it had ties to a police investigation into a prostitution ring at a high-end Parisian nightclub.
Worse yet, it emerged that French national team star Franck Ribery and teammates Karim Benzema and Sidney Gouvou had been paying $3,000 for prostitute Zahia Dahar, who was not yet 18.

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Small-time violators such as pot smokers and prostitutes are less likely to land in jail, freeing resources to fight serious crime.
Share By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times December 25, 2010, 5:59 p.m. E-mail Print Text Size la-na-new-orleans-crime-20101226 Reporting from New Orleans — In the squad room of the New Orleans Police Department’s 6th District, a large red square is painted on the wall behind the lectern, as if a cop had acted on some Abstract Expressionist impulse. It is a wordless reminder to officers here, one that could serve as a new motto for the city’s criminal justice system. “It means, ‘We don’t arrest squares,’ ” said Sgt. Yolanda Jenkins, a community outreach specialist. By “squares,” she means the everyday citizens and tourists who may be guilty of some minor infractions but who aren’t contributing to New Orleans’ scourge of violent crime. And cutting them some slack represents a major philosophical shift for a city that has the nation’s highest per capita jail det …

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Historian addresses local business group
Published: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 9:18 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 9:18 a.m.
HOUMA — Historian and humorist Buddy Stall of New Orleans offered up some juicy historical tidbits to business leaders Tuesday afternoon.
Stall spoke to the meeting of the South Central Industrial Association regional business group at the Quality Hotel in Houma. Interspersing lively humor, Stall told the attendees stories from around the state, including that of Michael LaPage of Houma, who invented the first automatic shirmp-peeling machine. Among New Orleans’ historical facts: It’s the home to the oldest permanent opera company in the United States and also authorized the first license for prostitution.
“We had culture before two-thirds of the states had agriculture,” Stall joked.

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New Orleans has long had a ridiculous policy of shackling minor criminals, people with unpaid traffic tickets — even those who dare ask why a friend’s being arrested — and dragging them all off to parish prison. 
The arrest-everybody policy in New Orleans has been harsh on those caught up in the system. But it also has been a hassle for police, the district attorney and criminal court judges who’ve had to spend time adjudicating such penny-ante matters. The high number of arrests wasn’t making anybody feel safer because so many people were being arrested for things that would make the average person shrug.
The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously last week to scrap the old policy and give police officers discretion to write summonses for simple marijuana possession, prostitution, “flight from an officer” and “interfering with a law enforcement investigation.”

See the full article from “NOLA.com”

It is hard to believe that Jindal would give the team a new deal. With the recent budget cuts to higher education, how can any politician vote to keep a franchise that is a money pit afloat with taxpayer’s dollars?
Stern also used the old ploy of selling naming rights and sponsorships to help in generating revenue.
Hello!
That has been said for more than a decade with both the Hornets and New Orleans Saints.
The last time I checked, both the Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Arena were still without named sponsors. There are only three Fortune 500 companies based in the state, Entergy, Shaw Group and CenturyTel. Neither one of these companies have stepped up to buy the naming rights of either facility.
The one thing that New Orleans is well-known for is adult entertainment, but the Larry Flynt Hustler Club New Orleans Arena probably wouldn’t fly with Stern.

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