By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Add five years to the Danziger Bridge prison time count. A former New Orleans police officer was sentenced Thursday to five years for his role on the bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, according to a Justice Department statement. Robert Barrios rode with other officers in a large Budget rental…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Dear Son, As your enthusiasm builds for leaving home and going off to college in a few months, I want to talk with you about having to make on-the-spot moral, legal, and social decisions when you are on your own. As you know, the news has been filled with reports and…
James Cavanaugh was an ATF agent and supervisor for 33 years before retiring in 2010. By James Cavanaugh For ticklethewire.com America is now witnessing a democratic movement that is taking to the streets the likes of which we have not seen since 1968. As this phenomenon develops we should all realize how overwhelmingly…
By Jerry Markon Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ramping up civil rights enforcement against local police nationwide, opening a number of investigations to determine whether officers are guilty of brutality or discrimination against Hispanics and other minorities. In recent months, the Justice Department has begun inquiries into major city police departments such…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More bad publicity for the Transportation Security Administration. Three of its agents, along with a police officer and a state trooper were among 20 people arrested in connection with an interstate prescription drug ring that shipped oxycodone to New York and Connecticut from Florida and relayed the profits back to Florida,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has assigned two agents to work full time in the New Orleans Police Department’s internal affairs unit, another move in a concerted effort to unearth corruption in the troubled department, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. “It’s the right thing to do at the right time,” said David Welker, special…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In a different twist on the war on drugs, Mexican police on a couple occasions in the past 18 months have first gathered in the U.S. before crossing back into Mexico to stage raids, the New York Times reports. The boomerang operations are designed to throw off the cartels,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ugly chapter in New Orleans history — the shootings at Danziger Bridge in 2005 — continued to play out in a federal court Monday, with an FBI agent testifying about why he doubted what police were saying. Two unarmed people were killed and four were injured in the Post-Katrina shooting….
