New Orleans has multiple special events during the year, and each means the New Orleans Police Department has to work to keep the both residents and visitors to the city safe. And then there’s Carnival time, when the NOPD is tasked with providing all-hands-on-deck protection for days on end.

There’s a lot of news about young people causing havoc, hurting and scaring people, shooting and carjacking people. Intellectually, we know that those individuals are the exception. Most of our children, teens and young adults are good people doing good things — and they stay out of trouble.

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A striking New Orleans police officer shake the hand of a National Guardsman during the New Orleans polic strike of 1979.