What you're seeing is the residuals from a system prior to Katrina that was broken. Katrina is exposing everything in its rawest forms now.
Ray Nagin: “What you're seeing is the residuals from a system prior to Katrina that was broken. Katrina is exposing everything in…”
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Nagin explains the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city's criminal justice system.
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