“Defend and support law enforcement officers as part of his public-safety agenda.”
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Adversarial re-check: all three cited sources are real, live, and say what the prior rating claimed. (1) The Governor's own office page (gov.louisiana.gov/news/4425) is Landry's opening remarks to the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session on crime and contains the exact quote 'They have our backs. It's time we had theirs.' about law enforcement, plus his call for peace-officer qualified immunity. (2) The Louisiana Legislature's bill page for HB2 (2024 2nd E.S., Rep. Tony Bacala) confirms the subject is 'immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances for peace officers and public entities that employ or appoint peace officers,' passed the House 73-31, and was signed by the Governor on March 6, 2024 as Act No. 16 (effective April 29, 2024). (3) WBRZ confirms Landry signed HB173 on May 28, 2024, criminalizing standing within 25 feet of an officer who orders you back (60 days / $500), a measure the ACLU and House Democrats opposed as reducing police accountability. (4) Independently verified beyond the prior rating: Fox 8 confirms 'Troop NOLA launched in March 2024' as part of 'Gov. Jeff Landry's broader crime-reduction strategy,' i.e. he actually deployed state police resources, not just rhetoric. I also searched specifically for DISCONFIRMING evidence — vetoes of law-enforcement bills, police funding cuts, conflicts with sheriffs/police unions — and found none; the opposite pattern appears (budget increases for corrections/law enforcement, state police retirement benefit increases, and increased survivor death benefits for fallen officers). Same-standard test: a governor of either party who convened a special session on the promised subject, personally placed the signature item on the call, signed multiple bills into law in the promised direction, deployed state personnel, and continued the pattern in later sessions would be rated FULL. The rubric reserves CHAMPIONED for leading an effort that was NOT fully enacted ('even if not fully enacted'); here the effort was led AND enacted in statute, so FULL is the correct slot. Confidence held at 0.88 rather than higher only because the promise is aspirational and open-ended, so 'essentially 100%' is a judgment call rather than a bright line. One housekeeping correction: the prior rating's WBRZ quote could not be re-surfaced verbatim from the live page, so it is replaced below with directly verified text from the same article.
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