Addressing the Issues We Face Together.

Safety and Accountability

The people of New Orleans want safe neighborhoods. For too long, the current ruling elite have been disconnected from those neighborhoods playing politics in the capital. Crime is on the rise here and we need to hold the ruling class in New Orleans accountable for being unresponsive.

We also need to hold people accountable for their actions. ACCOUNTABILITY leads to OPPORTUNITY to provide people abandoned by city and state governments with the assistance they need to make their lives whole and become better citizens.

I am working tirelessly each and every day on the ground-level in our communities to address our fundamental safety challenges, so I am hearing your concerns about raising crime. The real question we should be asking, however: is the sheriff’s office really listening?

Let’s hold politicians accountable for the problems they helped create. 

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Independent Vision for the Sheriff’s Office

Politics has no place in the Sheriff’s Office—political parties provide campaign strategies and the money that puts candidates in office.

But money comes with strings.

These strings have no place in the safety of our communities. When you elect a partisan candidate to an independent office like the sheriff’s, you get politicians working for their parties and putting national, special interests over local needs. Our communities don’t need another politician only working for their party or someone who let’s Washington dictate their strategy. New Orleans needs a sheriff who understands our needs, who has fought diligently for the health and safety of all, and who won’t take dark money for a favor.

As an Independent Candidate with years of public safety experience, I have the unique opportunity to enact real and meaningful change for New Orleans while being able to bring everyone interested in her well-being back to the table.

I want to represent you and you alone, not politicians, not special interests. 

New Orleans’s Mental Illness Crisis

As I have been working with community leaders, parents, and citizens of New Orleans for the last [6 years ] through Healing Minds NOLA, I have heard time and time again that we have a serious mental illness crisis in our city. As if anyone doesn’t know. Apparently, however, our politicians are themselves or don’t have a firm grasp on how to help their communities.

As your next Sheriff, I won’t be.

And I haven’t been. I’ve been devoting my life to our communities, advocating for people suffering with mental illness, and pleading for politicians to step up and provide the resources needed for the most vulnerable. They haven’t followed through.

It is essential that we implement effective solutions for people suffering with mental illness now. These solutions need to be made available today before they commit a crime and get thrown into an indifferent and ineffective system. If they are already in the system, their illness still needs to be addressed and an effective treatment plan put in place to ensure that once they are back in the real world they can thrive. I cannot accomplish this alone.

I need your help to address our mental illness crisis and put New Orleans on the right path. 

Reforming Our Jail

It’s clear that our jail aisn't up to the task. Just like our communities, our inmates’ mental health, safety, and well-being is a complete afterthought to our current Sheriff. He has bungled his most fundamental duties and needs to be held accountable. If we don’t hold him accountable the humanitarian crisis in New Orleans will only get worse.

Our jail needs to be changed and addressed by someone with experience, independent vision, and passion for human dignity. I believe you can tell the success of a community by the condition of their prisons jails.’?

And I will take the necessary steps to put our jail back on track and find solutions to address our inmates’ mental health so we can all move New Orleans forward.

My team is already working to reform the Orleans Justice Center Jail's organizational structure. The intent is to build in accountability and transparency from the top down and bottom up. Below is a flow-chart designed by Jeremy Dewberry, Public Safety and Security Consultant, that demonstrates how we will eliminate the need for the consent decree. As you will see, under my leadership, there will be no need for the current or any future consent decree. Policies I will oversee does what consent decrees require, Constitutional jails.

Another feature we have given a great deal of thought to, is ways to include the community in jail reform. See advisory councils in the chart that comes under the Chief Deputy. These councils will be independent and operate under their own by-laws. Stakeholder groups will be able express grievances and discuss problems within each council. At unified council meetings, leadership will address recommendations collaboratively.

Additionally, we will be introducing new policy to allow New Orleans residents the opportunity to volunteer within various divisions. Citizens will benefit from learning operations in real time and having more eyes in the jail will increase transparency.

Jails are ground zero for community failures. To that end, we are reimagining the jail as a hub for community problem solving that is meaningful, and outcomes-based.  

Join me in this fight for New Orleans. 

Condensed Organizational Chart with brief general descriptions of each component's function. Note the structure will evolve as it is implemented.

There will be a series of organizational charts that flow from each of the displayed Sections.

FEMA NIMS ICS
Organizational Structure

Components Level- Supervisor Title and or Rank
Span of Control

Section- Section Chief or Deputy Chief
1 Section = 3-5 Branches

Branch- Branch Manager or Colonel / Lt. Colonel
1 Branch = 3-5 Units

Unit- Unit Manager or Lt. Colonel / Major
1 Unit = 3-5 Divisions

Division- Division Manager or Major
1 Division = 3-5 Groups

Group- Group Manager or Captain / Lieutenant
1 Group = 3-5 Teams

Team- Team Leader or Lieutenant / Sergeant
1 Team = 3-5 Task Forces or Special Purpose Resources

Special Purpose Resource- Specialist, Sergeant, Senior Corporal, or Corporal
1 Special Purpose Resource = 1-5 Posts

Post- Sr. Corporal, Corporal, Deputy, Corrections Officer, Physical Security or Specialist

1 Post is a single location or assignment where responsibilities are contained in a defined area appropriate to the capabilities and training of an individual under the supervision of a more senior officer assigned to that area as a supervisor. 

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