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New Orleans considers shutting down bars it deems ‘complacent’ about crime

A proposal before the New Orleans City Council, pushed as an anti-crime measure, would allow a newly created task force to withhold liquor licenses from bars the city determines to be “contributing to, facilitating, or otherwise complacent” about “criminal activity surrounding the establishment.” The resolution would set up a task force including the New Orleans […]