Rafael Goyeneche, President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission visits the show regularly to provide an update on crime and insight into the struggles our city faces as it relates to crime. There’s been 197 homicides in New Orleans since this time last year, which is a 42% increase. Also, Goyneche and I discussed Mayor LaToya Cantrell spending $29,000 in travel upgrades all under the guise of safety.
Hearing Cantrell’s justification for this a joke. I was completely unaware there was a line of demarcation for safety within an airplane
She's brought at least one security officer with her on every one of these trips. She's in first class and they're in economy. She may feel unsafe because her security is too far removed from her on the plane. This is not about safety,it's about a sense of entitlement. This is about the mayor taking advantage of the public and using public funds to fuel her desire to travel the world These actions are why I think this recall petition has a chance
In my opinion, the mayor has had every opportunity in recent press conferences to apologize to the public, but instead she doubled down on her actions.
The word she used were basically code for the citizens arethe stupid ones, and they have no common sense. I don't have much confidence that she will acknowledge that she doesn’t need to travel.
We're seeing history repeat itself. This came up when she was on the city council and running for mayor. Apparently she didn't learn anything from that and five years later. It's the same scenario, only more money, more abuse of the public fisk at a time when the city is being inundated with violent felony crime
Rafael, there are internal violations and potential criminal investigations against high ranking members of the NOPD… it frustrates me because I am a big cheerleader of the NOPD and Superintendent Shaun Ferguson, but seeing hearing about those violations and investigation, you begin to wonder where the police department is headed.
The police department is trying to patch up all the leaks in the dam and they're running out of fingers and toes to do it. I think the hardest job in the city of New Orleans right now is the superintendent of the police department. He's spending a lot of sleepless nights trying to come up with some strategies. I expect that we'll be hearing from Ferguson about some new initiatives rolling out soon.
I know him to be a fine gentleman, and I have a lot of respect for him. My frustration is there doesn’t seem to be any exigency to combat crime
