By Josh Roberson | WVUE | November 23, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -A violent night in New Orleans leaves two people dead and seven others shot. The first of those incidents happened Sunday afternoon and continued late into the night. New Orleans police say four people were shot at one location near…
By Matt Sledge | NOLA.com | November 20, 2020 Since a troubled electronic ankle bracelet program ended two years ago, Orleans Parish Juvenile Court judges have lacked options for keeping watch on young people ahead of trial. Last month, however, the city launched a new program it hopes will keep more kids out of the…
By Kenny Kuhn | WWL Radio | November 13, 2020 New Orleans Superintendent Shaun Ferguson announces key arrests and guns confiscated as the department deals with a spike in violent crime. During a Friday press conference, he says significant arrests have been made in all eight police districts. Homicide arrests are up by over…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | November 13, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Police Chief Shaun Ferguson says he wants the public to know that his officers are committed and working hard to keep the city safe. At the same time, he says murders are up, according to the Metropolitan Crime Commission…
By Garey Forster | Contributing Columnist/The Advocate | November 13, 2020 Headlines are a curious thing, especially when they work, grabbing the attention of a reader just passing by. When I saw “Furious” LaToya Cantrell on NOLA.com, I thought the mayor must be upset about all of the shootings and murders, or maybe another building under…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | November 12, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS– The New Orleans Police Department presented their 2021 proposed budget to the City Council today. WGNO talked to the Metropolitan Crime Commission to help analyze what the proposed budget means. The Commission said with crime spiking, and budget costs reducing, this could…
By Paul Murphy | WWL-TV | November 12, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — The Cantrell administration is asking all city departments to cut their budgets in the coming year. That’s because the Coronavirus and efforts to control it have drastically reduced tax revenue in New Orleans. Thursday, NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson presented his 2021 spending plan…
By Nicholas Chrastil | The Lens | November 12, 2020 The New Orleans Police Department presented its budget proposal to the City Council on Thursday, which absorbs an 8 percent cut in funding from this year’s budget by relying on continued officer furloughs, cuts to overtime spending, and leaving non-critical vacancies unfilled, according to…
By Thomas Perumean | WWL Radio | November 12, 2020 The Metropolitan Crime Commission reports in October of last year there were 3 carjackings. This year there were 32. An increase of 106%. Carjackers are getting more frequent, more brazen. On Monday a woman, putting her son in a car seat, was carjacked at gunpoint.…
By Chris Nakamoto | WBRZ | November 11, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO BATON ROUGE – Despite a three-year-old case being closed and not under criminal investigation, it took Louisiana State Police two months to make records related to that case available to the WBRZ Investigative Unit. Now, it’s what was missing from those documents that…