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In New Orleans, Cantrell faces the twin challenges of tackling a high violent crime rate and complying with the 2012 federal consent decree, a broad slate of reforms the city agreed to implement after a scathing federal report detailed corruption, brutality and bias across the police force. Whoever Cantrell picks will be tasked with extending a decline in homicides that reached a 47-year low in 2018, while convincing a federal judge that the department has met the bar for implementing lasting reforms. He must still be approved by the Baltimore City Council for the permanent job. Her selection will be a highly personal one, said former Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who plucked Harrison from his post as commander of the sprawling 7th District in New Orleans East in August 2014, after Ronal Serpas resigned as chief. "It is really an important decision, but it’s very personal to a mayor. However, insiders are already ticking off a short list of names stocked with local candidates, most from within the department. Harrison named Thomas to lead the department’s investigations bureau last year. “You want to find that person that’s best for the department at this moment in time, and it may very well be that there’s somebody that she feels that can do it within the department,” Landrieu said. Cantrell may also need to please a constituency of one: U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, who oversees the department’s reform agreement with the federal government. “The department is way better than it’s been,” Scharf said.

I’d like to talk about heroes – and mine are people who defend human rights. Human rights are individual rights; they are not the rights of a group. This sounds obvious, yet it seems to get increasingly drowned out in the way we react to crises or events, and not least in the way politics is framed. Grossman’s Life and Fate took me three weeks to read – and three to recover | Linda Grant Read more But what also feels worryingly distant is the very notion that human rights hinge first and foremost on the protection of the individual, not of the group. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a state are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. What tends to get lost in all of this is the sacredness of the individual as opposed to the community or group they belong to – or are ascribed to. “In my experience,” he recently said, “the victims of human rights violations know full well that human rights are universal. Only those who violate human rights look for excuses in traditions, cultures, circumstances.” And he added: “human rights defenders defend the rights of each individual. Others defend the rights of a specific community. After all, that’s what the opening articles of the 1948 universal declaration keep telling us.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, has said that someone using a stolen identity has nominated Donald Trump for the award. The Norwegian news agency NTB quoted committee secretary Olav Njolstad as saying it appears the same person was responsible for forging nominations in 2017, as well. Njolstad who could not immediately be reached for comment, declined to identify the person, adding that Norwegian police have been informed. “Every year, we get lots of invalid nominations, but these are nominations that are not valid because those who nominate are not qualified to do so,” Njolstad told NTB. “As far as I know, this is the first example of someone nominating someone by stealing another person’s identity.” Nobel peace prize: US lawmakers nominate Hong Kong protesters Read more Norway’s Nobel Committee keeps candidate names secret for 50 years. However, those who can nominate candidates – parliament members, university professors, directors of peace research and international affairs institutes, and former recipients – can go public with candidate’s names. In January, Henrik Urdal, manager of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, told the Associated Press that Trump had been nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize but said the nomination “still lacks a strong academic justification”. The leader of the independent Norwegian peace institute said it was “an American player with the right to nominate a candidate” who told him the person had tapped Trump. Urdal declined to name the person.