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Author Ethan Brown once quoted Chuck D’s famous line - “When I get mad, I put it on a pad” - on his website. Brown is living by those words now more than ever. Shocked by the lack of media attention given to the current problems in one of America’s most unique cities, Brown recently relocated from New York City to New Orleans to offer up-close and personal accounts of criminal justice issues in what is now the murder capital of the United States. Since his move, he plans on covering everything from day-to-day murder stats to dysfunction in the NOPD and Orleans Parish DA’s office. Most importantly, he wants to delve into what lessons, if any, can be learned from New Orleans at a time when homicide rates are rising in big cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia. In addition to this, he will be busy working on two potential books. TSS is honored to have Ethan Brown break down some of the most pressing issues and possible solutions for a city in a state of crisis with the Crew’s DJ Sorce-1.