Struggling to enlist New Orleans police officers for some off-duty detail work under a new city-run system that many cops revile, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s office plans to ask the City Council to allow higher pay for officers to work some events, Chief Administrative Officer Andy Kopplin said Tuesday.
In the meantime, a federal judge agreed last week to let the city put off taking over management of details for Jazzfest, the French Quarter Festival and other major events until 2015, leaving them this year under the officer-run system that existed for decades before scandal and a federal consent decree led to creation of the new system.