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...early. That has been an important reform in New Orleans, where the police department has come a long way from October 1994, when Officer Len Davis ordered a lethal hit on citizen Kim Groves for filing a brutality complaint against him. On the same day Groves was killed, Richard Pennington was sworn in across town as the new superintendent of police. With the city's reputation in free fall, Pennington moved quickly to replace the department's discredited internal-affairs division with a more independent public-integrity division and to ban controversial restraining tactics such as choke holds...
...Pennington also established an early-warning system that flags the records of cops who have drawn more than one complaint. Those officers get 40 hours of training in everything from their choice of words when making an arrest to the correct way to secure handcuffs. Says Pennington: "We jump on the problem and address it immediately...
...mayor has fired, suspended or reprimanded 74 officers and has hired a new police chief, Richard Pennington, from Washington. Morial and Pennington have also taken the unprecedented step of inviting the FBI to help them clean up the department. Pennington has limited the amount of detail work that officers can do, forced them to report all details through official department channels and outlawed detail brokers. Perhaps most significant, Morial gave police their first raise-5%-in eight years. Says Morial: "We knew people were going to scream and holler about the detail work. But it was something...
...mayor has fired, suspended or reprimanded 74 officers and has hired a new police chief, Richard Pennington, from Washington. Morial and Pennington have also taken the unprecedented step of inviting the FBI to help them clean up the department. Pennington has limited the amount of detail work that officers can do, forced them to report all details through official department channels and outlawed detail brokers. Perhaps most significant, Morial gave police their first raise-5%-in eight years. Says Morial: "We knew people were going to scream and holler about the detail work. But it was something...
...Clayton Pennington...