Was New Orleans safer under mob control?
Comparing The New Orleans State-Item’s 1964 summary of unsolved crimes to today’s Metropolitan Crime Commission report, I wonder if New Orleans’ residents felt safer when organized gambling and prostitution were the city’s most significant concerns.
Why Police haven’t found the New Orleans snipers
The New Orleans Police Department’s Director of Communications asked me to stop referring to Interstate 10 shooters as serial snipers, and I complied. Then I got to thinking about it… Truth-in-Journalism is something we need desperately today.
NOPD says State Police no help with I-10 snipers
In April, the New Orleans Police Department’s Director of Communications asked me to stop referring to Interstate 10 shooters as serial snipers, and I have complied. However, for the record, the Merriam-Webster dictionary does define “serial” as “performing a series of similar acts over time” and “snipe” as “to shoot at exposed individuals from a concealed point of vantage.” In other words, repeat offenders do not have to fire high-powered rifles from atop high-rise hotels to be called snipers.
Fallen Hammond officer Fred Karlton remembered
For decades, historians considered Marshal James Gordon Anderson, killed in 1933, the first Hammond police officer to die serving the city. However, in 2020, Bayou Justice discovered the 1922 murder of Marshal John Madison Day. And this week, we recount the career of Officer Fred Karlton, including his shotgun death as he served his final warrant in 1917.