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New Orleans' Bad Boys

While the full story never seems to come out in the first couple of days, it certainly looks like the New Orleans Police Department has taken another black eye (nice pun) -- this time for gang-beating a 64-year-old retired elementary schoolteacher. Police say he was drunk; he says he hasn't touched the stuff in 25 years.

The two city police officers accused in the beating, and a third accused of grabbing and shoving an Associated Press Television News producer who helped capture the encounter on tape, pleaded not guilty to battery charges and were released Monday.

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Police Superintendent Warren Riley said any misconduct found in an investigation would be dealt with swiftly. He noted the video showed "a portion of that incident." "The actions that were observed on this video are certainly unacceptable by this department," Riley said.

A Times-Picayune editorial sums it up nicely:

It's good that Superintendent Riley acted decisively and sternly with these officers. The Police Department has been plagued by rogue cops for some time. Officers have been arrested for rape, kidnapping, shoplifting and conspiracy to commit armed robbery over the last two years. During the immediate aftermath of Katrina, some officers engaged in looting and others deserted their posts. Cops that act more like criminals than law enforcement officials obviously need to go, but officers who can't control themselves or fulfill their duties are a detriment, too, and one that a recovering city can't afford.

Not that this is anything new, of course. Here's a small sampling.