Mayor LaToya Cantrell and NOPD Chief Shaun Ferguson are actively making moves to make New Orleans safer for its citizens. Mayor Cantrell has hired a former high-ranking member of the New York City Police Department to consult the city on how to improve the NOPD.
Regarding the growing shortage of officers on the force, Melanie Talia, president and CEO of the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation recently said, “Right now, everything is on the table.” Talia continued, “We’ve gotten off the ground on that recruiting efforts with new officers with 2400 new applications” and NOPD will “turn its sights to hiring experienced officers.”
Considering how long the crime wave in New Orleans has been growing out of control - it’s fair to ask why it took so long for the mayor to aggressively approach the officer shortage problem.
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While the crime wave of murders, armed robberies, carjackings, and sexual assault was blooming in our city, Mayor LaToya Cantrell was silent on crime. This is not the observation of a few - it is the prevailing consensus on Cantrell. The louder the public outcry became - the quieter Mayor Cantrell became.
This is why her selfish mentality toward her travels stands out as a statement about what Mayor Cantrell thought was a priority. It certainly was NOT NOPD and public safety.
But it appears that the mayor and NOPD are finally addressing the on-going problem of officers leaving the force with fewer officers joining up.
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Criticism of Cantrell dates back to her days on the City Council, when she ran up thousands of dollars in personal expenses on a city-issued credit card. While she may not have technically broken the law and did pay the money back, one has to wonder if she would have paid the money back if her political opponent had not exposed the activity. Cantrell was also highly criticized for her failures and handling the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel on Canal Street.
But it has been the recent decisions of Mayor Cantrell to side with a convicted teenage thug over the victims and her blatant abuse of taxpayers’ dollars used to finance her lust for luxury in making the personal decision to violate the city’s rules on travel to fly 1st class that have exposed an arrogance that is not congruent with good leadership.
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Cantrell’s ridiculous excuses for making the personal decision to fly first class and to side with a convicted teenage thug over the victims reveal a sense of desperation on her part to stop the wave of condemnation now coming from many of those she considered her base. Mayor Cantrell has even lost the security of knowing that if she had Black voters on her side - she would always have power. That appears to have changed.
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If there is something positive that comes from this dark moment in the history of New Orleans - it is that we see the power of the people.
Honest media coverage and the exposure of city records educated the public as to what Mayor Cantrell considered a priority and that awakened an outraged public.
Through the help of WWL Radio and social media as loudspeakers, New Orleans citizens made their message loud and clear: THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE and change must come immediately.
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Cantrell’s absurd idea that her recall effort against her is part of a Republican effort to remove from office the first Black female mayor of the city has been laughed at by the people of New Orleans, who are uniting behind an effort to stop politicians from advancing personal agendas over doing what’s right for the people.
Rising from the negativity of Cantrell’s behavior is the reminder that the ultimate power lies in the people - not the politicians.
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