Pretty sure we've been saying de-fund the police, not re-fund the police.
New Orleans City Council members agreed Thursday to ask voters to renew a sales tax that would pay off-duty New Orleans police officers to patrol the historic French Quarter.
For the past five years, the 0.24% tax has paid state troopers to monitor that neighborhood. But the ballot language the council approved Thursday doesn't bind those troopers to that job, and members said the cash is better spent with the French Quarter Management District, whose supplemental police patrol program has been praised by residents and businesses.
Under the program, off-duty NOPD officers use smart cars to navigate the Vieux Carre. Residents can use a mobile app to confidentially tell the task force about crimes in the area.
This is the cop app program created by Sidney Torres back in the day before he sold that idea to Fox television and then went on to bigger things as the star of his very own house flipping show.
This week we learned that Sidney has taken his treppin' talents into the culinary world... during a pandemic... because certain kinds of wealth inoculate us against all sorts of risks, I guess. Anyway, at least he didn't choose a cloyingly ironic name for the new... oh...
Trep’s has been taking shape for months on property that was once an auto garage of the same name. As it’s progressed, neighborhood speculation about the plan here has swirled, thanks to the design and one high-profile partner in the project.
That would be Sidney Torres IV, the local celebrity entrepreneur and reality TV star.
Well alright. Good to see Sidney is doing so well during the collapse of everything.
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