By Gregory Rusovich | The Advocate | June 8, 2022 “The French Quarter is disgusting,” shouted a recent Times-Picayune headline quoting a local worker. For years, French Quarter residents and leaders have been howling about the crumbling streets, pervading stench, aggressive panhandlers, uncontrolled homelessness, rampant graffiti, a general sense of lawlessness and surging violent crime.…
By Chris Miller | WWL | June 7, 2022 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW How can NOPD deal with surging violence and wanton disregard for the law like many in New Orleans witnessed Sunday? It will likely take a lot of creative thinking. New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche says there is no short-term fix,…
By John Simerman | NOLA.com | June 6, 2022 Oris Buckner III, a former New Orleans Police Department officer who broke ranks in the early 1980’s to help convict three other detectives for brutalizing residents in the notorious “Algiers 7” civil rights case, died Wednesday in Houston, where he lived. He was 70. Buckner, who…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | June 6, 2022 NEW ORLEANS – A person was found slain Monday morning (June 6) in a far eastern section of New Orleans, police said. The NOPD offered scant details of the killing, declining to reveal the victim’s identity, age or gender in an initial public bulletin. The department…
By Louisiana Weekly | June 6, 2022 The heart-wrenching murder of Mrs. Augustine Greenwood, 80, in Xavier University’s Convocation Center parking lot last Tuesday is the last damn straw! The mother of six and grandmother to 15 was there to witness her grandson, Corey Lashley Jr., graduate from Morris Jeff High School. They walked to…
By Will Weissert and Zeke Miller | Associated Press | June 3, 2022 WASHINGTON – ”Enough, enough!” President Joe Biden exclaimed over and over Thursday night, as he delivered an impassioned address to the nation imploring Congress to take action against gun violence after mass shootings he said had turned schools and other everyday places…
By Joshua Arnold | LifeNews.com | June 3, 2022 When states are red, but cities are blue, abortion battles begin anew. Fearful that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade and send abortion policy back to the states, some pro-abortion officials in some progressive cities are preparing to draw it down to the local…
By Kenny Kuhn | WWL | June 2, 2022 CLICK FOR AUDIO In less than 12 hours, eight people were shot in New Orleans from Wednesday afternoon to early this morning as violent crime continues to rise out of control. According to New Orleans police reports, one man was shot on the edge of the…
By Gerald Herbert | Associated Press | June 1, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An elderly woman was killed and two males wounded when an argument between two females erupted into gunfire Tuesday at a university campus after a high school graduation there, New Orleans police said. The males received wounds that were not life-threatening…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | May 27, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO The NOPD says it has a plan to address crime. Starting June 1, next Wednesday, patrol officers will go on 12 hours shifts. The NOPD believes this will help to be more proactive and have officers visible on the street. On top of…