SOCL 3371 Lecture : Lecture 20 1 1
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Lecture 20 crime control in the 21st century. With crime up in new orleans, city needs more police officers: three times this summer, armed robbers hit new orleans restaurants or bars. For a city reliant on tourism, the idea that diners might get held up between the appetizer and entree was a big problem, says the washington post. The robberies highlighted an unsettling truth in the big. It"s open season on criminal opportunity, said peter scharf, a. The ranks of police in new orleans have dwindled since. Hurricane katrina, from 1,500 to 1,134, a 24 percent drop. City o cials blame federal and local budget cuts, as well as a justice department consent decree that in 2013 ordered major reforms that the city is struggling to implement. The city did not hire any o cers between 2010 and. 2012, when police were leaving the city at the rate of about 150 a year.
