By Natasha Robin | WVUE | June 21, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Mayor LaToya Cantrell says addressing crime is the city’s top priority. Meanwhile, crime victims say they’re fed up, and in some cases, ready to leave the city. “I feel like I am the crisis mayor,” Cantrell said. “For four…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | June 20, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – After three of his vehicles were broken into in a matter of weeks, a man living on St. Charles Avenue decided to hire his own armed security, who was also victimized. “It’s concerning to think that we have this…
By David Jones | WVUE | June 17, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – It’s no secret that New Orleans struggles with violent crime, but new statistics paint a grim picture of the Crescent City being on pace to be the murder capital of the United States if trends don’t change in 2022.…
By Kevin Gallagher | LouisianaRadioNetwork.com | June 16, 2022 A crime & corruption watchdog group calls for review of a Tangipahoa Parish case wherein a rape victim was ordered to pay child support to her alleged attacker. Metropolitan Crime Commission director Rafael Goyeneche says the victim was just 16 when the attack occurred, and the…
By John Simerman | NOLA.com | June 16, 2022 Public confidence in the New Orleans Police Department has nosedived, while a dwindling minority of residents feels the city is safe, according to a newly released survey from the New Orleans Crime Coalition. The rising sense of peril and frustration with police crossed neighborhoods, races and…
By David Jones | WVUE | June 15, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson again dodged FOX 8′s cameras Wednesday afternoon, declining to speak to the news outlet following her presentation to the city council on the events that transpired at the jail over the weekend. Two inmates…
By Matt Sledge | NOLA.com | June 15, 2022 The New Orleans Police Department has moved patrol officers to 12-hour shifts and hopes to lure cops from other agencies to reduce 911 response times and stem violent crime, Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said Wednesday. Five months after Ferguson faced a grilling during a carjacking surge,…
By Meg Farris | WWL-TV | June 14, 2022 The Metropolitan Crime Commission says a lot went wrong when Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson made the decision to pull deputies from the courthouse on Monday, forcing the court’s closure. “There’s actually a Louisiana law that mandates that every sheriff has to provide court security, so she…
By FOX 8 Staff | WVUE | June 14, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Two men who died in the Orleans Parish Justice Center have been identified by the parish coroner’s office. One man, identified as Philip Soublet Jr., was killed in a jailhouse brawl while awaiting trial for second-degree murder. Officials say Soublet died…
By Jillian Kramer | NOLA.com | June 14, 2022 Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who said this week that a critical staffing shortage played a role in the weekend deaths of two men held at the Orleans Justice Center, would not provide information Tuesday on jail staffing levels, saying it could pose a new security…