Two more homicides last week brings us to 29 for the year so far, an increase of 32% compared to 2021 and an increase of 93% since 2019. Carjacking (up 450% relative to 2019, 78% relative to 2021) is still our biggest problem at the moment. We have had 66 so far in 2022. Shootings…
By Heather Nolan, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Criminal justice advocates look at New Orleans’ successful reduction in jail population — 1,200 inmates now compared to more than 6,000 pre-Katrina — as the first step in a movement toward reform. Now, they’re pushing for local policy changes that would eliminate money bail, a practice they say…
By Rob Masson | June 19, 2019 at 5:22 PM CDT – Updated June 19 at 5:59 PM NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – The Metropolitan Crime Commission is revealing some startling statistics as they prepare a report on a prisoner risk assessment system that’s now drawing criticism. The city, which operates the system says it’s…
BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS | STAFF WRITER PUBLISHED JUN 18, 2019 AT 11:42 AM | UPDATED JUN 18, 2019 AT 7:59 PM Wearing hooded sweatshirts to hide their faces and blue medical gloves that wouldn’t leave fingerprints, two men from Indiana barged into a CVS pharmacy on Prytania Street early Monday, bound two employees with…
“The absurdity of this defendant’s risk assessment speaks volumes about what is wrong with the criminal justice system in the City of New Orleans,” Cannizzaro said. Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 4:55 PM CDT June 18, 2019 Updated: 6:51 PM CDT June 18, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — The two suspects arrested in Monday’s…
James Gill MAY 18, 2019 – 10:30 PM It wasn’t hard for the cops to identify suspects in the murder of New Orleans pizza deliveryman Richard “Chris” Yeager five years ago. Electronic monitors, which had been attached to the ankles of Rennel Brown and Shane Hughes while they awaited trial on other offenses, put them…
