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...duty, when can you stop and frisk somebody?" asks Instructor Frank Connolly, a veteran police inspector, who retired in 1974. Answer: "Only inside your geographical area of employment." Later Connolly zeroes in on the distinction between larceny and robbery. A "perp" snatches a chain from a woman's neck, he hypothesizes. "Is it larceny or robbery?" Answer: "If he grabs the chain and breaks it without using force against her, you don't charge him with robbery unless you want to lose. Absent force, it's larceny...
Besides better fiscal management, Roemer is offering something else that Louisiana is not used to: relentless honesty in government. He has created his own muckraking department, hiring veteran Times-Picayune Investigative Reporter Bill Lynch to serve as Louisiana's first inspector general. Lynch received enough reports of improprieties to prompt the Governor to replace all members of both the racing and the real estate commissions. Says Lynch, who is expanding his staff from twelve to 35: "If I had known as a reporter what I learned my first three days here, I could have won five Pulitzer Prizes." Louisiana residents...
However, because the state transferred authority for code enforcement to city governments in 1973, the state inspector, Arthur Ritacco, was powerless to issue a citation and instead had to turn the matter over to Cambridge inspectional services...
...unknown reason the matter was dropped that fall, and Ritacco never responded. The Cambridge inspector was later dismissed for unrelated reasons. Cambridge inspectional services is also under investigation for possible violations in its inspection procedures...
...this informal arrangement has proved problematic. This spring a small child fell through a Carpenter Center railing that a state inspector had cited as unsafe...