18 Quotes by Rafael Goyeneche

The public is now to the point of disgust and outrage that they want the city to take the same steps that they're taking to insure the tourists are safe and apply that to the public at large.

Every year, there are one or two people killed who were scheduled to testify in criminal court.

There's a credibility issue that is manifesting itself in New Orleans. Part of that is the disconnect the public feels with the police department. The reputation of corruption lingers, and the new problems compound it.

Really, a lot of the violence in New Orleans was, I think, a direct result of the failure of the criminal justice system. And I mean every component, including the public, because the public is one of the main reasons why a lot of these prosecutions didn't go forward. ... Because they failed to cooperate.

It's important for this administration to not just address the appropriateness of the shooting but to look to other policy or training that would have prevented them from getting to this point.

The New Orleans Police Department is probably better than any other organization in the U.S. at policing an event like this. I think it's because most of them grew up with Mardi Gras; they understand it because they've been attending since they were kids.

Houston is feeling some of the pain from the failure of the New Orleans criminal justice system.

A glut of lawsuits are going to be filed over all of this.

The career criminals know the criminal justice system, its strengths and weaknesses better than 99-percent of the population.