By Ramon Antonio Vargas | NOLA.com | January 22, 2021 New Orleans East and an area including the 9th Ward have borne the brunt of the gun violence that perennially plagues the city’s streets over the last five years, according to a recent analysis from the Metropolitan Crime Commission. About half of all homicides and…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | January 21, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The majority of the violent crime in New Orleans over the past five years, happened in the two areas of the city. That’s according to the Metropolitan Crime Commission report. The New Orleans Police Department agrees with the findings…
By WDSU Digital Team | WDSU | January 21, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — Many New Orleans residents have reported that their cars have been broken into many times in recent weeks. A new report by the Metropolitan Crime Commission shows there has been a substantial increase in both car thefts and burglaries…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | January 21, 2021 Metropolitan Crime Commission discusses new 5-year trend crime report for New Orleans NEW ORLEANS– The Metropolitan Crime Commission released a 5-year trend crime report which takes a look at all the crime in the various districts in New Orleans. Rafael Goyeneche, the President of the Metropolitan Crime…
By Victoria Cristina | WGNO | January 21, 2021 NEW ORLEANS — On January 21, the Metropolitan Crime Commission released a report examining crime trends over the last five years in Orleans Parish. The report shows trends for major felony offenses, broken down by the eight Districts of the New Orleans Police Department. New Orleans has…
“Some people who have been committing car burglaries have apparently graduated to robbery,” Goyenche said. By Mike Perlstein/Eyewitness Investigator | WWL-TV | January 21, 2021 NEW ORLEANS — The increase in violent crime in New Orleans in 2020 compared to 2019 is actually part of an even more troubling five-year upswing, according to a report…
By Nicholas Chrastil | The Lens | January 20, 2021 Public defenders in Orleans Parish are hopeful that a new reform-minded district attorney, Jason Williams, will help them come up with innovative ways to address the thousands of open cases that are clogging the dockets at Criminal District Court due to months of COVID-19-related court closures…
By Travers Mackel | WDSU | January 15, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO A former client of both the newly installed Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and a member of Williams’ leadership team entered a plea agreement Thursday that prompted a local watchdog group leader to allege a conflict of interest. Dan Bright had faced…
By Garey Forster | NOLA.com Contributing Columnist | January 13, 2021 When governors and mayors begin and end terms of office there are several objective data points to look at to determine if they will be or were successful in carrying out their duties. Budgets and taxes come to mind. When a new district attorney…
By Kevin McGill | Associated Press | January 11, 2021 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans city council member took the oath of office as the city’s new district attorney Monday, facing a pandemic-related backlog of cases and high expectations from criminal justice reform advocates who rallied around him — despite his indictment on…