More raids

What are they even charging the clubs with? Everybody keeps throwing around the phrase "human trafficking" but no one has found any evidence of that.  And no one has said why these raids are occurring right now.

Three dancers interviewed since the raids said they are skeptical of law enforcement's commitment to protecting workers in the French Quarter, saying the NOPD's officers in the raid treated dancers like they were criminals. The state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control has not announced any charges or released any records following the raids, saying they will make the illegal activity they documented public Feb. 6.

That's when the four clubs -- Rick's Sporting Saloon, Dixie Divas, Temptations and Scores -- are due for a hearing on the emergency suspensions of their business licenses. An additional four clubs, Rick's Cabaret, Hunk Oasis, Larry Flynt's Hustler Barely Legal and Stiletto's, were served with emergency suspensions on Thursday (Jan. 25).

We're running up on to the heart of Carnival season. It's a bad time for all these people to be missing work. There's apparently going to be a march next Friday to protest the raids. Maybe catch that after Oshun passes.