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Call for reports and database follow racial profiling suit

By John Breslin | Sunday, Nov 27, 2016 @ 12:30pm

NEW ORLEANS — A wrongful arrest lawsuit filed by a visiting professor and his teenage son has prompted calls for a database detailing the race of those arrested by police across Louisiana.
Louisiana State Police face lawsuit for alleged false arrest of black 18-year-old

By John Breslin | Sunday, Oct 30, 2016 @ 7:48pm

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana State Police's arrangement with the city of New Orleans permitting troopers to patrol the French Quarter is likely to come under scrutiny following the filing of a lawsuit by a university professor and his teenage son.