Cops to sticker New Orleans homes with a 'Scarlet Letter'

Cops to sticker New Orleans homes with a 'Scarlet Letter'

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Under a new initiative announced this week by the New Orleans Police Department, private residences will also become the home of massive orange stickers that’ll alert neighbors, “Hey, don’t worry. There might be drugs here.”

New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas revealed to the media this week that the NOPD will soon be responding to allegations of drug activity with a campaign that some feel will create more problems than it could solve. Acting on citizen tips provided to the New Orleans Crimestroppers Inc website, the NOPD will now descend on homes alleged to engage in drug activi

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Slapping a big orange sticker on homes where warrants were served or a Crimestoppers tip was investigated? I'm with the "create more problems than it will solve" gang. I can see all kinds of potential for abuse and exposure and branding of innocent people here.

[exnews]"We're going to start placarding every house that we do a search warrant on," Serpas explained to reporters. "Neighbors will spot it and see it and know we did go to that house, we did follow up on that Crimestoppers tip…which will hopefully encourage more,” he added.

To show they're doing their job?

But even more recent breaking news...

Louisiana: New Orleans Backtracks on Labeling Suspected Drug Houses

Less than a day after initiating a policy of putting signs on houses investigated for drugs as a result of a Crimestoppers tip, Superintendent Ronal Serpas of the New Orleans police canceled it Wednesday. The signs read in part, “N.O.P.D. has served a narcotic-related warrant or checked this residence as a result of a Crimestoppers hotline citizen’s tip.” The bright orange stickers were to be put on homes under investigation and singled out through anonymous tips. They were to go up after officers executed a warrant at a property, regardless of whether drugs were found or arrests made. Critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that they might target innocent people.

Guess the ACLU is still good for something, as demonized as it is. Glad they're around.

The very fact that someone even thought of doing this...just wow.





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This is good news for dealers.
Sales will increase heaps because we all know that any publicity is good publicity.

This has been canceled, they decided it wasn't such a good idea after all!

NOPD Rescinds Decision On Placarding Strategy

Originally posted by WhoDat09
This has been canceled, they decided it wasn't such a good idea after all!

NOPD Rescinds Decision On Placarding Strategy

Right. I had that in the OP. I searched but didn't find another topic about this.

Thanks

Nazis did things similar to this in the beginning

Im sure there will be more of this sooner then later.

i say we call the police and report every congressman as being a potential drug dealer.. see how they will respect that law

The stickers can be removed at "any time by anyone," according to NOPD spokeswoman Remi Braden, and the glue used in the stickers is "said to cause no damage to property."

Esman countered: "If anyone can take it off at any time, then what's the point? Why should taxpayers' money be spent on something that can just be peeled off right away."

Exactly. Why even bother and spend the money?

Would have been funny for counterfeit signs to start appearing on police officers homes. Take it a step further and start labeling Hospitals and drugstores.

Some of these ideas meant to help the citizens make me think that people supposedly in charge need to go back to get an education. It obviously failed them, how bright is our future when the children of today have to step up and not only do their jobs, but clean up the mess these people are making today.

So they're going to brand people as drug dealers without trial. It's going to be funny when they have massive lawsuits coming in against the city for slander.

to me those stickers are a sign of poor losers. "we're losing the drug war miserably" is what it says

to me those stickers are a sign of poor losers. "we're losing the drug war miserably" is what it says

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Not a bright move.

Its no different from fingering innocent civilians. Plus, you open yourself up to the possibility of legal retaliation.


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Had another thought about this. Do you all think it's similar to the posting of the addresses/locations of child molesters? Probably not, as they're CONVICTED. Guess I answered my own question.

To me this screams more of public relations than anything else. A clearly not thought through move.

reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck

Guess that's why the ACLU got right on it and they reversed their plans so fast. Scarlet Letter is a really good analogy, even though if I recall correctly, even the wearer of a scarlet letter at least got the semblance of a trial.

there is a very easy way to get this to stop

call crimestoppers and report all the drug trafficking you have witnessed in and out of the sherrifs house....

they are always above the law and once they are one of the guilty until proven innocent labeled individuals they will then care enough to undo it.

They put a mark on the homes of the german Jews at one time also....
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Yeah. Especially based on a "tip" from maybe a disgruntled neighbor....just to show they "investigated." As if there's not enough gossip on the street as it is. Seems to me this could intensify tensions.

Guess it's not as bad as those orange stickers they slap on the windows of broken down cars that you can never remove.

reply to post by ~Lucidity

Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Guess it's not as bad as those orange stickers they slap on the windows of broken down cars that you can never remove.