Talking it out: Police accountability and training are just two of the topics that will be discussed during two planned community conversation events the city-parish is hosting on policing. The conversations, which are free and open to the public, will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. today and on Nov. 3 in meeting room nine at the Raising Cane’s River Center’s exhibition hall. The discussion will be led by Synthia Taylor, regional director for the Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service. Mayor Kip Holden says the conversations are being held to discuss and review police policy and to provide recommendations for a community action plan. Other topics include community policing, body cameras and police civil service rules, as well as recruitment, retention, residency requirements and pay incentives. Attendees are encouraged to register.
Tiger fandom: Local Baton Rouge entrepreneurs have jumped on the mobile phone sticker craze and have created an officially licensed LSU Stickers app for iOS users. According to a news release, Logan Leger, founder and CEO of NewAperio, and Jared Loftus, CEO of College District, combined their resources to create a sticker pack for LSU fans to use in iMessages. Loftus contributed as an artwork partner. “There’s such a small window for innovate products and ideas to get on the market nowadays, we knew we had to jump on this quickly,” says Leger in a prepared statement. “Plus, any time I get to work on something that supports LSU and this great city, I want to be in on it.” The duo plans to update the app for every sport. The LSU Stickers app can be downloaded from the App Store.
On pins and needles: U.S. stocks fell to the lowest since July as concern over everything from presidential politics to Federal Reserve rate hikes sent gauges of anxiety surging. Bloomberg reports that the S&P 500 Index fell 0.9% to 2,106.60 at 2:55 p.m. in New York, the most since Oct. 11. The index sank as low as 2,097.85 before a bounce and has tumbled 2.1% during a six-day losing streak, its longest since August 2015. “This unbelievable election season we’re going through isn’t exactly engendering confidence,” says Richard Sichel, chief investment officer at Philadelphia Trust Co. “There’s more uncertainty as nervousness reaches a crescendo in the final days. Earnings season is basically over, and while it was a pretty good one, there’s nothing out there to trigger an up-move.” Read the full story.
