Make sure you read Kevin Allman interview with Inspector General Robert Cerasoli.
But I think some of the most interesting pieces were left for the internet (including the post title):
There are a lot of people that are engaged in the business community, there are a lot of non-profits that are engaged. But it’s not up to them; it’s up to the government. This attitude here, of putting everything into the hands of non-profits to do, instead of having the government do, has gotta end.The government has to stand up for its responsibility. And that will initially, by the way, be counter-intuitive. It’s counter-intuitive. For us to go public and say, “We want to take all of the government and put it under the mayor and the council,” people might step back right now and say, “Oh, God, I don’t want to do that.” But in the future, you have to, because there’s no accountability here, there’s no “the buck stops here, it’s our responsibility, how come this isn’t being done?”
I agree. This city needs to expand the capacity of municipal government.
While that might be a difficult sell for a discredited administration like Ray Nagin's, it won't be so objectionable if it's proposed by a leader that can first prove that the government we do have is capable of functioning effectively and efficiently.