Candid Interview with Former Louisiana Cop on No-Knock Raids

Last week, we traveled to Crowley, Louisiana to look deeper into the Theresa Richard story, who has  been arrested [__twice in six months__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/05/29/louisiana-police-arrest-pinac-reader-video-recording-public/) for [__recording cops in public,__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/12/06/louisiana-cops-arrest-woman-recording-inside-police-station-seize-camera-evidence/) where we came across a former Crowley cop who granted us a very candid interview about how the department was conducting no-knock raids several times a week, finding very little drugs, but generating plenty of federal grants because of the raids.

I will be reporting more on that trip in the upcoming week, but I wanted to post the interview with Johnny Courville now because he provided good insight into police culture in general, not just in small-town Louisiana.

The culture is corrupt, but we knew that. But if we can give a voice to those cops who realize it’s corrupt, then maybe we can begin to change that culture.

Last week, we traveled to Crowley, Louisiana to look deeper into the Theresa Richard story, who has  been arrested [__twice in six months__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/05/29/louisiana-police-arrest-pinac-reader-video-recording-public/) for [__recording cops in public,__](http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/12/06/louisiana-cops-arrest-woman-recording-inside-police-station-seize-camera-evidence/) where we came across a former Crowley cop who granted us a very candid interview about how the department was conducting no-knock raids several times a week, finding very little drugs, but generating plenty of federal grants because of the raids.

I will be reporting more on that trip in the upcoming week, but I wanted to post the interview with Johnny Courville now because he provided good insight into police culture in general, not just in small-town Louisiana.

The culture is corrupt, but we knew that. But if we can give a voice to those cops who realize it’s corrupt, then maybe we can begin to change that culture.

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Editor-in-Chief Carlos Miller spent a decade covering the cop beat for various newspapers in the Southwest before returning to his hometown Miami and launching Photography is Not a Crime aka PINAC News in 2007. He also published a book, The Citizen Journalist's Photography Handbook, which is available on Amazon.

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