Wednesday, December 8, 2010

New Orleans City Council: A Study on Alternatives to Petty Crime Arrests

As part of an ongoing push to move away from physical arrests for petty crimes, a New Orleans City Council committee on Wednesday discussed four proposed ordinances, debated the idea of a "sobering center" for drunks creating a disturbance and looked at other ways of streamlining the lower levels of the city's historically inefficient criminal justice system.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/12/new_orleans_city_council_study.html

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