Wednesday, June 16, 2010
NOPD 8th District Commander Maj. Edwin Hosli: crackdowns on live music stemmed from complaints at NOMPAC meetings
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM
In his initial statement regarding the crackdown on French Quarter and Marigny street musicians, NOPD 8th District Commander Maj. Edwin Hosli told Gambit: "We have been getting several complaints from the citizen groups complaining about the street musicians and the late night loud music."
We requested the names of those groups from Maj. Hosli. He emailed this response:
I consistently received complaints from residents of the 8th District at our monthly NOMPAC meeting regarding loud music. I would invite you to attend our next monthly NOMPAC meeting on July 8, 2010, at 6pm. The meeting is held at the Maison Dupuy Hotel at 1001 Toulouse Street. The meeting is always open to the public and I encourage you to attend.
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Gambit has done an exemplary job covering this story, all day long. I saw y'all early in the facebook comments to Palumbo's initial photo-post, and you took the ball and ran with it from there, providing a ton of facts and relevant first-hand statements unavailable elsewhere. Hats off.
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Kevin, thank you so much for covering this so well. I was cited by the NOPD that year before the Flood, only it turned out to be this bad cop doing shakedowns. Still, it cost me a few hundred dolla! So I wrote it into a lyric to one of my songs: Ahem... ~I asked my momma if she could find me a pair of Black Cow-Boy Boots to take the stage, in any neighborhood, on any crowded street, in any antique doorway where ever the People freely meet ---Lest they bust me for playing music in the city that care forgot, --and fine me a hundred'dolla and say they better nott -find me playing music in the Quarters after dark ----and that goes for you're little dog, Flora. --and that goes for'yer little dog too! I was playing on Royal back in '79. But also like what Jefferey said over at Library Chronicles: "1) Everybody thinks they're on Treme these days and so folks will become very testy over a perceived threat to "the culture". I doubt that NOPD could even tell one "got your shoes" dude to quit harassing people without facing the wrath of a thousand wanna-be Creighton Bernettes on some holy crusade right now." http://bit.ly/94SLhT
I was in New Orleans last April for Jazz Fest and I didn't have a problem with "loud music". Hell, the street music is one of the reasons I fell in love with your city and got me wanting to move there in the fall!
I would assume these folks knew about the music before they moved into the neighborhoods, right????
It's kinda crazy to think some people live in THE FRENCH QUARTER OF NEW ORLEANS and want to stop hearing music on the streets after 8 p.m. Somebody from their peoples need to step up and compromise on a later hour, because, you know it's THE FRENCH QUARTER.
Ah, yes, the mysterious complaints. I wonder if the number of businesses would complain equally loudly about the lack of tourists should the Quarter suddenly fall silent.
