By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The Justice Department is starting to show its face in the New Orleans police department as part of a wide-scale assessment of the troubled police force.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that on Friday “a handful of representatives from the Department of Justice’s Special Litigation Section sat silently, taking in the scene and jotting down occasional notes” a the department’s weekly command meeting on crime.
The paper reported that the Justice Department is on the ground in New Orleans beginning the assessment of a department that has recently seen several current and former cops indicted in connection with the shooting of civilians and the cover up of those cases.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez recently announced the inquiry, which will assess systemic problems that need correcting.
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