DOJ Greene Investigation Overdue

The Department of Justice is about to undertake its so-called “pattern of practice” into the Louisiana State Police, the state’s premiere law enforcement agency. The investigation will center around people who have alleged that LSP has engaged in “discrimination and brutality” patterns on its citizens, particularly Black people. Though there have been allegations of LSP misconduct over the last decade, it has been the disturbing videos of LSP Troopers savagely beating Monroe native Ronald Greene three years ago that has kept LSP in the spotlight. One that it rather not be in. The fact that the...