Building a better police state

Mitch picks up a few pointers in DC.

Lanier, Washington's police chief since 2006 who appeared with Landrieu at a U.S. Conference of Mayors panel discussion on youth crime, said some changes were accomplished relatively quickly.

She noted a "texting" program in which young people are encouraged to use their cellphones to report crimes and other suspicious activity in their neighborhoods.

Of course if we're going to enlist teenagers as a kind of secret police informant force in New Orleans, we may want to let them out of the house after 8PM