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.