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Pattern Hunters, LLC

Andrea Hagan is a criminology instructor at Loyola University New Orleans and the founder of Pattern Hunters, LLC, a public scholarship platform that focuses on criminology, community engagement, and accountability.

Pattern Hunters publishes long-form analyses of structural failure points in criminology, public policy, and community accountability. Subscribe to receive the work in your inbox, with companion mobilization pieces alongside the diagnostic.

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Painted comic-book-style illustration of four Black congressmen seated along the witness wall at the Louisiana State Capitol on May 8, 2026, beneath a torn map of Louisiana showing two majority-Black congressional districts traced in coral red.
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The Map Was Always a Story: SB 407, Callais, and the 350-Year Game The hearing room held an entire history. May 8, 2026. Eight hours, and counting. The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee was in session at the Louisiana State Capitol, and four men sat together along the witness wall — U.S. Representatives Cleo Fields and Troy Carter, alongside former Representatives Cedric Richmond and William Jefferson. Every African American in Louisiana who has been elected to Congress since...

12 days ago • 14 min read
Pattern Hunters comic-style illustration of a Cedar Grove streetscape at twilight with a 1940 Shreveport residential security map showing a redline running through the foreground street, a candle, and an analytical legal pad listing the structural failure

A companion Pattern Hunters Policy Brief on the Cedar Grove case is available by request only to qualified policymakers, legislators, advocacy organizations, and journalists. Inquiries: andrea@patternhunters.com. Eight Children, Two Mothers, and Cedar Grove's Unanswered Why A Pattern Hunters Long-Form Analysis What the law could not reach. What the federal map pre-decided in 1940. And what a community is rebuilding while the cameras pack up. "A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great...

21 days ago • 18 min read
Pattern Hunters comic-style illustration of a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales over a bleeding ballot at the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol, with a Klan-hooded ghost watching from the shadows under a stormy red and black sky.

Louisiana, Again: Callais, the Devil's Bargain, and the Ghost of Jim Crow at the Polls A companion policy brief — A Louisiana Voting Rights Act: A Model Statute and Federal Escalation Path — is available by request from the author. Not for public distribution. There is a thread that runs from a courthouse in Grant Parish on Easter Sunday in 1873, to a streetcar on Royal Street in 1892, to the marble corridors of the United States Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, and it is the same thread,...

23 days ago • 13 min read