NOLA.com Opinion: What if we saw jury duty as something to be embraced, not dreaded?

The New Orleans Police Department had the highest rate of credible accusations of police abuse in the whole country, then-U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite told an auditorium of black high school boys at a 2014 forum to discuss friction between the police and black communities.  In a Department of Justice report that eventually led to the Police Department entering into a consent decree, investigators found that "NOPD's failure to ensure that its officers respect the Constitution and the rule of law undermines trust within the very communities whose cooperation the Department most needs to enforce the law and prevent crime."