By Olivia Vidal | WVUE | March 4, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – An emotional day in court today as a bond hearing took place for the man convicted of killing former Saints player Will Smith. The hearing comes after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the manslaughter conviction for Cardell Hayes, as the jury was not unanimous…
By Tommy Tucker | WWL Radio | Occasionally stories pop up that run parallel to each other. Sometimes its coincidence; sometimes its cause and effect. That was the case today as we discussed raising the curfew age in Orleans Parish. The parallel story to curfew age concerned a teenager whom, according to the Advocate, was…
By Sam Hanna Jr. | The Ouachita Citizen | March 3, 2021 Editor’s Note: This column was first published the week of Feb. 3, 2020. Twelve years ago in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s first year in office, the newly elected governor called a special session for lawmakers to entertain a package of reform bills to improve…
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…