1. This is some real demagogic bullshit from I guy I thought I liked. No sense of responsibility about how law enforcement including his own office helped to created that outcome.
https://twitter.com/orleansparishda/status/1401592355732533250
2. When people fail to come forward they are not "choosing the side" of the harm-doers. Such nonsense.
3. They are responding to the circumstances around them which has involved 30 years of hyper-carceral harassment over the tiniest offenses — literally worse than anywhere in the world — from the people you’re expecting them to go to when something bad happens.
4. Also 30 years of those same law enforcement agencies being rife with the most blatant corruption and law-breaking. Famously bad. And also 30 years of them failing to solve cases and obtain accurate convictions.
5. Maybe instead of pointing fingers at the public, Jason Williams should look in the mirror at his own agency and his main partner in decades-long failure, the NOLA police.
6. Also I should have mentioned the cruelty with which his office has treated crime witnesses and crime victims – locking them up for their trouble! – might also have something to do with their reticence. nola.com/news/crime_pol…
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