After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major ...
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 ...
After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that ...
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 ...
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 ...
After years of federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department is entering the final phase of the consent decree.
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) ...
a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to wind down monitoring. The police ...
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 ...
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 ...