Rafael Goyeneche Quotations

We're 10 years removed from being the most notorious police department in the United States. So people will assume this is just a continuation of that. But I don't think it is.

People will continue to have a negative opinion of police in this city. That goes back to some of the sins the department has been guilty of over the past 10 to 15 years.

Basically what we found was that for instance with murderers only 14-percent of the people arrested by the police department for homicide were ever convicted of homicide.

The people who are the most dangerous know the system the best.

I think that such a search is what should happen but I don't believe it will.

I think there are a number of training and policy issues that need to be addressed by this administration.

To learn that the city has exported 7,000 guns seized from street criminals to other parts of the country is really mind-boggling and the height of hypocrisy.

This suspect epitomizes everything that was wrong with the criminal justice system in New Orleans before Katrina blew through town.

There has been a dramatic shift in public integrity in the department. That means not only more hours but a new attitude.

The public is now to the point of disgust and outrage that they want the city to take the same steps that they're taking to insure the tourists are safe and apply that to the public at large.

Every year, there are one or two people killed who were scheduled to testify in criminal court.

There's a credibility issue that is manifesting itself in New Orleans. Part of that is the disconnect the public feels with the police department. The reputation of corruption lingers, and the new problems compound it.

Really, a lot of the violence in New Orleans was, I think, a direct result of the failure of the criminal justice system. And I mean every component, including the public, because the public is one of the main reasons why a lot of these prosecutions didn't go forward. ... Because they failed to cooperate.

It's important for this administration to not just address the appropriateness of the shooting but to look to other policy or training that would have prevented them from getting to this point.

The New Orleans Police Department is probably better than any other organization in the U.S. at policing an event like this. I think it's because most of them grew up with Mardi Gras; they understand it because they've been attending since they were kids.

Houston is feeling some of the pain from the failure of the New Orleans criminal justice system.

A glut of lawsuits are going to be filed over all of this.

The career criminals know the criminal justice system, its strengths and weaknesses better than 99-percent of the population.