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.

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 recorded himself on his own body camera. And that just is, I don’t

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