Taylor v. Department of Police

BELSOME, Judge.

_JjThe New Orleans Police Department seeks review of the Civil Service Commission’s ruling to reinstate Officer Chadwick Taylor. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On the morning of September 24, 2010, New Orleans Police Department Narcotics Detective, Chadwick Taylor, dressed in plain clothes, was participating in a narcotics investigation involving a student at Warren Easton. After observing a drug transaction, Detective Taylor, identified himself as an officer and placed the juvenile subject, whom he had identified as the distributor, under arrest.1 When the arrested…