And another one

Beach Corner brawl draws FBI civil rights investigation into NOPD
By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune
April 08, 2010, 10:35PM

The FBI confirmed Thursday that it has an ongoing civil rights investigation into the actions of New Orleans police officers during a 2008 bar brawl with city transit workers.

The FBI now has at least eight ongoing civil-rights investigations into the New Orleans Police Department. Most of the other inquiries involve cases in which civilians died at the hands of police.

I'm not as convinced as others seem to be that a federal takeover of NOPD reform is necessary, but I'm beginning to think that's the road we're headed down.

Meanwhile, you gotta love this from Warren Riley.

Riley told WVUE that the news media have exaggerated the NOPD's problems. But he said there is little support for the NOPD, making morale among the officers very low.

"I don't think they are pushing as hard right now," Riley said of his officers. "I think that they are afraid to get into a shootout. They are afraid to have to defend themselves ... They don't want to be the targets of an investigation. They don't want to be vilified."

According to Riley, the police are now less likely to shoot you without considering the ramifications of that act and this is somehow a bad thing. When does this guy leave, again?