NAACP, community leaders team up to solve BRPD corruption fallout for wrongfully charged
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BATON ROUGE - Community leaders are coming together to hold city leaders accountable for the damage caused by the Baton Rouge Police Department s corrupt narcotics unit.
The district attorney s office dropped over 700 drug charges after uncovering misconduct and dishonesty within BRPD s narcotics division, but those charges are still showing up in court records.
A typical expungement cost rings in at about $400 with a small portion going to the clerk of court and the district attorney, and majority of the money going to state police. With about 100 people connected to the hundreds of charges, it totals to about $40,000 to pay for the records to be wiped.
other issues as well. we he it the streets with a democrat, sa state republican, he used to be a sheriff. bill plummer. take a listen. take this neighborhood, for example, obviously hit hard by drugs, how do you actually come in and fix a neighborhood like this? what do you do? there neighborhood has been decimated by the drugs. it s the worst hit area we have. we lost a lot of citizens here. we need to get bem them back in the work force. you know i m working on sealing records, expunge records, give people treatment with conviction, saying go to the employer with a clean record. we all may mistakes. now we got to lift these people up, clean them up, get them back in the work force or we re going to continue this cycle. reporter: now, as those neighborhoods are revitalized, republicans want to get if there and say, look at the economy, it s getting better. that is because of us, democrats want to get in there and say we could be doing better. some of these economic