#547 Misprision of Felony- O’Neil De Noux
A murder happens in New Orleans. The owner of a corner store
was shot and killed in an armed robbery. Unfortunately this has happened more
now than it used to.
“Things were different now, AK—after Katrina. The hardcore
criminals, who were some of the first to return, had reestablished themselves
with a killing vengeance. The murder rate was back up top as new blood carved
out drug territories, and the police department, as devastated as the
neighborhoods, reeled in turmoil.”
Det. Savary is on the case, but is getting nowhere. He is
being stonewalled by the neighborhood, meaning only one thing:
“A local boy did this, but no one was giving him up to the
police. It didn’t even matter if Savary was raised three blocks away on Erato
Street. The day he started the police academy was the day he’d left the
neighborhood—permanently.”
With the help of his FBI friend, Savary tracks down the
murderer, and it was a local criminal. Now that the murder is taken care of,
he’s going after the culture of silence. Misprision of Felony goes back to
English common law. It makes it illegal to knowingly conceal the details of a
felony, even if you, yourself are not involved. In other words, rat or rot.
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