The New Orleans Tribune endorses Susan Hutson for sheriff
The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has never been without challenges. That was true long before Susan Hutson took the helm, and it will remain true for whoever leads the office in the future. But in her first term as Sheriff, Hutson has faced those challenges head-on, and we believe she deserves another four years to continue the work she has started.
Let us be clear: no administration is perfect. But what we have witnessed over the past four years is a troubling pattern—where every hiccup and every bump in the road at the Sheriff’s Office under Hutson’s leadership have been treated as if they were unprecedented, as if such issues have never arisen before. The reality is that every sheriff who has held this office has had difficulties. The difference is that with Hutson, those difficulties have too often been weaponized, magnified, and used as an opportunity to attack Black leadership. We reject that double standard…