Read NOPD's most overwritten press release recently
 

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Perhaps stifled creatively by its recent inability to include murder victim arrest records in press releases, the New Orleans Police Department has turned to Depression-era hardboiled cop films and/or comics for its inspiration. See today's ACTION ITEM!, which is actually pretty impressive on its own merits:

<blockquote>Criminal Intelligence Center Team Thwarts Murder-for-Hire Scheme (Note: The email's subject line reads "Criminal Intelligence Center Team Foils Murder-for-Hire Plot," which I think is better.)


(February 23, 2012)- New Orleans Police, Jefferson Parish Sheriff?s deputies and Louisiana State Troopers- all working collaboratively in the Criminal Intelligence Center (CIC) in Jefferson Parish- foiled a robbery and murder-for-hire plot on a New Orleans businessman before it happened, and arrested the alleged mastermind behind it.? [ Read more ]

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