By Olivia Vidal | WVUE | September 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A violent Labor Day weekend and a fatal double shooting Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 6) have pushed New Orleans’ homicide count beyond the total number recorded in 2020. There have been 205 homicides in New Orleans so far this year according to the latest data…
By Shay O’Connor | WDSU | September 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO A violent Labor Day weekend in New Orleans with a string of carjackings left people across the city on edge. The Metropolitan Crime Commission reports at least four carjackings Monday. Including one near Monkey Hill Bar on Magazine Street at about 10 p.m.…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | September 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Since Monday (Sept. 5), seven carjackings unfolded across New Orleans. “This city is like the wild wild west,” says Richard Launey. One of the latest incidents happened in the 3000 block of St. Claude Avenue where police say a…
By Lee Zurik & Dannah Sauer | WVUE | September 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Emails from FOX 8 News to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office go unanswered. Those emails asked if Sheriff Susan Hutson overpaid one of her former top employees. “I think it flies in the face of what…
By Matt Sledge & John Simerman | NOLA.com | September 4, 2022 With New Orleans’ murder rate in the red zone and cops fleeing the force, Mayor LaToya Cantrell has dusted off a quarter-century-old playbook: She’s called in the NYPD. Just as former Mayor Marc Morial did when crime and killing engulfed the city in…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | September 2, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – In the past week, the NOPD investigated more than 10 homicides bringing the total murder count to 198 so far this year. “Carjackings are up 7 percent and armed robberies are up 42 percent,” says Rafael Goyeneche. Rafael Goyeneche…
By Aubrey Killon | WDSU | September 1, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — New documents raise questions over consulting work done for the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office. Kyshun Webster, the former Juvenile Justice Center director for the city of New Orleans, did a few weeks of consulting work for Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan…
By Paul Murphy | WWL-TV | August 30, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — In a story first reported by our partners at the Times Picayune, New Orleans Advocate, New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell may be on the hook for close to $30,000 in air travel upgrades. Travel documents obtained by WWL-TV show Cantrell,…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | August 30, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The New Orleans Police Department’s average response time is getting worse as the department continues to face a critical manpower shortage. “The average is roughly 30 minutes, but if you’re in some districts, it’s like 40 or 50 minutes,”…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | August 30, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — The beginning of the end of Kyshun Webster’s tenure as the director of city’s juvenile jail was marked by accusations that he was rarely at the lockup, heavy-handed leadership when he was there, and numerous instances of violence, including the…