What Is Disturbing The Peace Charge in New Orleans?

Well, disturbing the peace is a pretty typical misdemeanor criminal charge, it’s usually done under the city code, but it can also be done in the state code in New Orleans for the most part it’s given to people that had a bit too much to drink and it’s, you know, kind of being without, outside of the boundaries of normal behavior.

Disturbing the peace kind of goes along with a number of party crimes in New Orleans, a lot of times people were hanging out in the French Quarter on Bourbon Street listening to music drinking a little bit too much and they get arrested for public intoxication, disturbing the peace, criminal trespass, these are all kinds of typical things that people get arrested for in and out around the party environment in New Orleans.