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…
By Kenny Kuhn | WWL Radio | November 11, 2020 Armed carjackers shove an 84-year-old woman to the ground and steal her car Tuesday afternoon according to police. An NOPD report says it happened about 2:30 p.m. in the 5700 block of Crowder Boulevard. Police say someone approached the woman and threatened to shoot her…
CLICK FOR VIDEO By Natasha Robin | WVUE | November 10, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – 168 People were killed on the streets of New Orleans so far this year. “This year, we know and acknowledge that homicides are up,” says NOPD Police Chief Shaun Ferguson. It’s an 87 percent spike, according to the Metropolitan Crime…
By WGNO Web Desk | November 10, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — According to a report released by the Metropolitan Crime Commission, the number of carjackings in New Orleans is up by 126% so far this year. But the numbers are much higher in some months. We’ll show you some of those cases in…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | November 10, 2020 The Metropolitan Crime Commission has released their 2019-2020 Orleans Parish crime report, which includes some eye-catching statistics about calls for service, arrests, inmate population trends and more, and today, Mayor Cantrell’s administration reacted by sending out Communications Director Beau Tidwell to deliver comments. “We…