By Rob Masson | WVUE | June 13, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A courthouse shutdown, implemented by newly-elected Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, caught many off guard Monday morning. Criminal court judges said they were shocked on Sunday when they learned of Hutson’s decision to pull deputies from courthouse security to…
By Kaitlin Rust | WVUE | June 10, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO There have been at least 11 murders in just the past five days across New Orleans. We’re now up to at least 135 homicides this year as police start 12-hour shifts to try to fight back. “It’s disheartening, first and foremost,” NOPD Chief…
By Kenny Kuhn | WWL | June 10, 2022 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW The violence continues in New Orleans with four people shot dead in less than 12 hours says the New Orleans Police Department. It started Thursday evening when two people were shot dead in the 1900 block of O’Reilly Street in the 7th Ward.…
By James Finn and John Simerman | The Advocate | June 9, 2022 The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced a major civil rights investigation of Louisiana State Police over troopers’ use of excessive force and claims of racially biased policing — the kind of intensive federal probe that often lands police agencies under…
By Janon Fisher | Daily Mail | June 9, 2022 A New Orleans city councilman is suggesting bringing in reinforcements as crime in the city spikes, homicides are on track to reach record highs and the police force struggles with chronic understaffing. ‘Maybe it’s time to talk about bringing in the National Guard,’ District E Councilman Oliver…
By Shay O’Connor | WDSU | June 8, 2022 New Orleans had a violent start on Tuesday night. At least three shootings overnight. One along Louisa Street where one man was shot, another shooting along Aviators Street where a man and woman were hit. One also along Franklin Avenue and Royal Street in front of…
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…