Roland Doucette was a policeman in New Orleans and patrolled some of the roughest neighbourhoods in America. Yet he found a way to help reduce crime by over 90 percent in some of them.
He tells Jonathan Groubert how he did it without weapons or arrests.
Roland Doucette
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The most powerful thing about this interview is not that Roland Doucette was able to greatly reduce the incidence of crime with a gesture of humanity, but that the system manifests the evil side of human nature more than the good behaviour of an individual. One can't help cynicism from creeping in, when human greed overrides proof of a solution to crime. Even the president won't step into that one.
PS. I just discovered your show and I love it.
Hi Steve: It is difficult not to be cynical and you can hear, at times, Roland's efforts to keep himself from being cynical on that point. But we're glad you found us and like us, presumably on CBC overnight?
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