The Louisiana State Police Commission (LSPC), the Louisiana State Police (LSP) equivalent to the Louisiana Civil Service Board, has a miserable record of accomplishments and an equally poor record of instability of membership.
And now, as the song goes, another one bites the dust.
Historically, the commission has been a rubber stamp for the LSP administration, woefully inadequate at conducting meaningful investigations and inquiries which, by extension, translates to general inaction in conducting hearings on disciplinary matters.
The commission has experienced a high TURNOVER RATE with members resigning over political campaign activity, trysts between members, and outright disgust for the way meetings degenerate into finger-pointing and name-calling.
The latest to exit is Gov. John Bel Edwards appointee Sabrina Richardson, a New Orleans Police Department captain-demoted-to-lieutenant and more recently suspended for 120 days.
Richardson, who was under investigation for possible double-dipping and payroll fraud, has RESIGNED from the LSPC.
Former New Orleans attorney ASHTON O’DWYER attempted unsuccessfully to get LSPC to investigate his claim that he was tased and shot by State Troopers from beleaguered Troop F in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Instead of giving O’Dwyer a fair hearing, or to even offer the pretense of one, the commission dismissed his claims out of hand, illustrating once again that it is a toothless tiger existing only to validate three different discredited LSP administrations.
Louisiana Voice 
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