Clancy’s Comment: AG launches investigation into French Quarter murder

NEW ORLEANS – The murder of French Quarter tour guide Kristie Thibodaux has brought renewed attention to the local electronic ankle bracelet system.

That’s the subject of this week’s commentary by Clancy DuBos, policy analyst at WWL Louisiana and Gambit columnist.

Someone needs to put the “monitor” back into the local electronic ankle monitoring system. That was the tenor of comments made by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill after French Quarter tour guide Kristie Thibodaux was shot and killed in an apparent armed robbery.

Police have arrested three youths, including a 15-year-old who was required to wear an ankle monitor after a previous crime. Murrill released a statement calling the monitoring system “broken” and a waste of time and money if no one is actually monitoring it. She’s right.

The violent and senseless death of Kristie Thibodaux leaves us all sad and angry, but hopefully it will inspire change that could prevent such tragedies from happening again.

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