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Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, former New York City prosecutor and retired FBI profiler.

Also writer and producer on CBS's Criminal Minds and the case of Jean-Benae Ramsey. And with me today is...

Laura Richards, advocate analyst and activist and I'm founder and director of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service

and also co-creator and co-producer of the case of Jean-Benae Ramsey. And I'm calling in live from London via Skype.

And I'm Lisa Zambetti. I am the casting director for Criminal Minds where Jim Clemente is my colleague.

And I have a real interest in Real Crime and the minds that solve those crimes and the writers who write about those crimes.

And we have a very special guest with us today. He is the author of the article that we're going to be talking about who runs the streets of New Orleans.

And our guest is...

This is David Amstin, a long-form magazine writer and as mentioned, the author of the piece who runs the streets of New Orleans for the New York Times magazine.

And I am calling in via Skype from Chicago.

So just to put this into context, we were approached by sponsor to see if we wanted to get involved in a particular actual new type of sponsorship.

And so we were asked to read an article about something that went on in New Orleans or New Orleans if you're down from there.

Not New Orleans as I was taught when I was a kid in New York to call it.

A TV show, a Fox TV show called APB wanted to be our sponsor and they told us that they were doing it based on an article written by our guest, David Amstin.

And so we read the article and we were really... it was just really a springboard for a lot of interesting conversations.

Absolutely, because in my work with the FBI, I certainly did a lot of work around the city of New Orleans and in the state of Louisiana.

And as well as since then, I actually worked on a movie with Al Pacino and Sir Anthony Hopkins that was shot there.

And during the course of that, I did note that in the French corner, there was a lot of need for extra security.

The crime reports were very rampant and there were a lot of people who worked on the crew that reported that a number of their productions that they worked on had extra security and that they had situations in which bad things happened while they were shooting.

What year was this, Jim? This was 2015.

So David, how did you get involved in writing this article?

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