By Natasha Robin | WVUE | February 24, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams announced his new Juvenile Division Chief as well as his plan moving forward on how to handle juvenile offenders. Williams announced Tenee Felix as the new Juvenile Division Chief. Felix was formally an attorney…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | February 22, 2021 Click below to listen to full interview: A recent consent decree monitor report states the NOPD has not met its goals and that there is more work that needs to be done. Areas of concern include ‘supervision, stop searches and arrests, and performance evaluations.’ Newell invited…
By Garey Forster | The Advocate | February 17, 2021 Eleven months into the pandemic and everyone’s personal behavior, work patterns and consumption choices have changed. Governments have collected fewer taxes, budgets have shortfalls, and services are cut at the state and local levels since only the feds can deficit-spend. It’s anyone’s guess when things…
By Aaron Murch | WSWS.org | February 10, 2021 Four Louisiana State Police (LSP) troopers were arrested this week for multiple instances of excessive force following a lengthy internal investigation. On Monday the officers arrested were Jacob Brown, 30; Randall Dickerson, 34; Dakota DeMoss, 28; and George Harper, 26, who served with Troop F in…
By Chris Nakamoto | WBRZ-TV | February 9, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO BATON ROUGE, La. – Training academy documents obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit through sources at State Police show one of four state troopers arrested Monday in an excessive force probe should never have been allowed to graduate from the State Police academy.…
By Lester Duhé and Nick Gremillion | WAFB-9 | February 8, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Officials with Louisiana State Police say investigators have filed charges against four Monroe area troopers for excessive force in two separate incidents. Authorities say the charges stem from an incident in July of 2019 and…
By Nicholas Chrastil | The Lens | February 5, 2021 Harry Connick became Orleans Parish District Attorney in 1974 promising to reduce crime in the city, and while an article in the New Orleans States-Item assessing his first eight months in office said it was too early to tell if Connick was effective, his strategy…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | January 28, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS– The New Orleans City Council voted today on a resolution for the media to stop using New Orleans East as a broad location term when describing events and crime that happens in this area. Danny Jones lives off of Bundy Road and…
By Jessica Williams | NOLA.com Staff Writer | January 28, 2021 The neighborhoods east of the Industrial Canal — commonly referred to as New Orleans East — too often get a bad rap in the media, said City Council members on Thursday, and they argued that reports on crimes there should be more specific to…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | January 27, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS– There’s been a spike in crime in New Orleans East and neighbors want something done about it. Folks living in New Orleans East are scared because they say crime is out of control. “This has to stop. Innocent people are losing their…