Feds slam New Orleans police over excessive force, racial profiling | Christian Science Monitor

The confluence of the "live and let live" ethos of the city's multitudinous street revelers and the "live and let die" attitudes of violent street gangs makes New Orleans a difficult and dangerous place to police. That's compounded by the city's long history of tolerance toward vice and poverty – a seamy underbelly only partly obscured by shiny string beads and magnolias...

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