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...answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes $14,900 a year, for example, and a 20-year veteran makes $30,000--it has long been assumed the officers would...
...officers came to look at the detail as their main job, and the police job just became a way to rest, to let it slide by," says Rafael Goyeneche III, managing director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a police-watchdog group. "Some just slept in their patrol cars." Details also gave rise to brokers in the department, who would organize outside work for a fee. This led to sergeants dispatching higher-ranking officers on plum off-duty jobs. "The real command structure of the department became the detail," says Howell...
...mayor has fired, suspended or reprimanded 74 officers and has hired a new police chief, Richard Pennington, from Washington. Morial and Pennington have also taken the unprecedented step of inviting the FBI to help them clean up the department. Pennington has limited the amount of detail work that officers can do, forced them to report all details through official department channels and outlawed detail brokers. Perhaps most significant, Morial gave police their first raise-5%-in eight years. Says Morial: "We knew people were going to scream and holler about the detail work. But it was something...
...answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes $14,900 a year, for example, and a 20-year veteran makes $30,000--it has long been assumed the officers would...
...officers came to look at the detail as their main job, and the police job just became a way to rest, to let it slide by," says Rafael Goyeneche III, managing director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a police-watchdog group. "Some just slept in their patrol cars." Details also gave rise to brokers in the department, who would organize outside work for a fee. This led to sergeants dispatching higher-ranking officers on plum off-duty jobs. "The real command structure of the department became the detail," says Howell...