East Baton Rouge Parish

And I've been looking at it sort of, you know, like a four part kind of basics.

So you got, you know, East Baton Rouge, about 176,000 voters.

You've got the four parishes on the east bank of the river.

It's about 142,000 voters.

Uh, there are certain timeframes that the district attorney's office must make that decision.

But when you're dealing with a population, uh, like East Baton Rouge Parish, where an overwhelming majority of the people who are arrested are poor-

Mm-hmm

... uh, that's how I, you know, I worked at the public defender's office.

Oh, you know what? Uh, there's actually evidence that contradicts what it is that's going on." But what's important to me here is that you don't get those days back that you've, that you've sat in jail.

Mm-hmm.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison is one of the most dangerous prisons-

Mm-hmm

DA races are critically important.

In Baton Rouge, my next guest, Ryan Thompson, he is the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney candidate.

And he's running there.

This is so important.

I've been on your show before with the Brave Cave where thousands of men, women, children, children, an elderly woman who had prescription pills and a firearm was unconstitutionally strip searched.

And the officers were not held accountable because the district attorney did not investigate the allegations that were put forth by that woman.

And so, yes, the district attorney is the most powerful person in not, if not the state, for my state, but also, but definitely the parish of East Baton Rouge parish and controls a lot of the policies as it relates to prosecution and who's held accountable and who's not.

Yeah, and a lot of people were criticizing Kamala Harris because of her record when she was district attorney in San Francisco.

She's one of the families.

She's the chief family court judge in East Baton Rouge right now.

And she was our keynote speaker and I had gotten to intern with her the summer prior.

And I just remember, and I graduated in the fall, which is a very small graduation because most people graduate in the springtime.

If you're in the local area, it's 225-389-3001.

One more time, 389-3001.

389 is a city parish number for East Baton Rouge.

So for some reason, in the heat of the moment, you can't remember that number, maybe just call 911.

The parrot, she said, had been stolen by another disgruntled employee who had also recently quit.

Deputies later booked this disgruntled former staffer as a fugitive in the East Baton Rouge Parish prison.

She was charged with burglary and theft.

And then it was returned, so then I wrote another article and, you know, it was supposed to be this cute story about a beloved parrot being returned, and maybe I should have done more digging there because it didn't seem to make that much sense [laughs] about how this parrot, you know, was stolen and then someone was actually arrested for stealing a parrot.

He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the state penitentiary.

Dragnet wishes to thank Sheriff Brian Clemens of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, state of Louisiana, for the appointment of Sergeant Joe Friday and Sergeant Ben Romero as honorary deputy sheriffs.

Our sincere thanks to Sheriff Clemens.

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