After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major step toward independence.

A federal judge has announced her decision on the New Orleans Police Department's yearslong consent decree. Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year sustainment period, signaling the beginning of the end of the consent decree.

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday.

In a joint statement, Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said, “Now is the time to end NOPD’s consent decree and return control of policing to the City—the brave men and women who serve in the NOPD deserve recognition for the hard work and commitment to this community that they have demonstrated over the last decade.”

a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to wind down monitoring. The police department has become a more transparent and accountable agency, though work remains to be done, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan ...

Federal oversight continues as NOPD enters two-year sustainment period, signaling progress but maintaining accountability.

Morgan said that NOPD must fully comply with the sustainment plan for two years before the department is officially released from the consent decree. The consent decree was a result of a 2011 report by the DOJ that alleged NOPD had a pattern of excessive force, discriminatory policing and excessive searches and seizures.

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling Tuesday came in response to a request

The days after Hurricane Katrina were dark ones for New Orleans, and in particular for its police department, some members of which were later found to have committed horrific crimes

has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight following a damning Department of Justice report dating back to 2011. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan approved a ...

a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to wind down the monitoring program. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said the police department has ...

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