Blue on Blue: Murder, Madness and Betrayal in the NOPD
A Police Department in Despair
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Few would deny that in 1995 the New Orleans Police Department was in sad shape. The agency was losing about 100 officers per year��many of them fired or arrested� and hiring only half that many.
In 1994, two officers were arrested for murder. One for killing a man the officer suspected of breaking into his apartment; the other for ordering the execution of a woman who had filed a brutality complaint against him.
Then in December 1994, the FBI arrested 10
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By the start of 1995, things were bad, but they were about to get a lot worse.
Officer Antoinette Frank��the woman who would become the poster child for police misconduct and the living symbol of a department gone bad��had just met Rogers LaCaze.
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Just past his 18th birthday, LaCaze already had a history of violence and drug peddling. His mother, Alice Chaney, kicked him out of the house when he was 17. "
At the end of 1994, LaCaze got shot. He told police that he and his friend, Nemiah Miller, were hanging out when another friend, a 19-year-old who went by the name "Freaky D," whipped out a gun and opened fire on them.
Alice Chaney has her own opinion for the reason behind the shooting. "It was behind a dope deal," Ms. Chaney says. "Rogers and Nemiah had just scored."
Miller died. LaCaze went to the hospital. One of the investigating officers was Antoinette Frank.