NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - On Dec. 5, 2023, former NOPD Officer Maurice Bailey’s body-worn camera captured video as the officer drove through the NOPD’s Seventh District while smoking meth. Days later, an NOPD sergeant conducting a random review of body-worn camera footage spotted the video, which showed Bailey using a lighter to torch a white substance into a cloud inside a glass pipe.

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Bailey was immediately ordered to submit to a drug screening. The results showed Bailey had methamphetamines in his system.

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Skip Gallagher, a forensic scientist and NOPD watchdog, reviewed the NOPD Public Integrity Bureau’s (PIB) investigation into the incident after the video was flagged.

“The officer re

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