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...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...
After years of official denial, city authorities now admit they face a monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...
After years of official denial, city authorities now admit they face a monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...
...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...
After years of official denial, city authorities now admit they face a monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...