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…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | January 28, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS– The New Orleans City Council voted today on a resolution for the media to stop using New Orleans East as a broad location term when describing events and crime that happens in this area. Danny Jones lives off of Bundy Road and…
By Jessica Williams | NOLA.com Staff Writer | January 28, 2021 The neighborhoods east of the Industrial Canal — commonly referred to as New Orleans East — too often get a bad rap in the media, said City Council members on Thursday, and they argued that reports on crimes there should be more specific to…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | January 27, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS– There’s been a spike in crime in New Orleans East and neighbors want something done about it. Folks living in New Orleans East are scared because they say crime is out of control. “This has to stop. Innocent people are losing their…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | January 27, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – District Attorney Jason Williams directs his prosecutors to no longer oppose the parole of an inmate, no matter the nature of the crime. “What we’re not going to do is blanketly oppose all parole hearings,” says Jason Williams. District…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | January 26, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -The Criminal Justice Stakeholders come together, recognizing there’s a crime problem. They say there’s a need for some changes in the new year to solve it. Violent crime over the last year skyrocketed in some areas. The leaders in the…
By Kimberly Curth | WVUE | January 25, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Carjackings are up more than 50% in New Orleans compared to this time last year, according to city calls for service data. City leaders addressed the spike in violent crime during a Criminal Justice Committee meeting Monday, Jan.…