BY MATT SLEDGE AND JEFF ADELSON | NOLA.com | August 1, 2020 A 9-year-old boy gunned down in front of his family in Treme. A 34-year-old man shot and killed in a dispute over a car title. Three men shot, one of them fatally, on a sunny afternoon in St. Roch. The events of the…
BY MATT SLEDGE | NOLA.com-The Advocate | JUL 29, 2020 New Orleans police would have to swiftly turn over body-worn camera footage to criminal defendants, and police would have less leeway to arrest people for minor crimes under a pair of ordinances the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee discussed this week. Council President and Committee…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | July 29, 2020 It’s been said time and again that we should be able to do two things at the same time. Can we? Disproportionate impact, over-incarceration and allegations that the criminal justice system is fraught with systemic racism has not only defined, but painted the picture of…
By Chris Miller | WWL Radio | July 28, 2020 Violent crime is on the rise in New Orleans, with shootings and murders grabbing attention from crime watchdogs. Raphael Goyeneche with the Metro Crime Commission says they have recorded a 47 percent increase in shootings for the year, and a 190 percent increase this July…
Travers Mackel | WDSU | July 24, 2020 St.JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — An embattled St. John judge who was benched but still paid after being indicted for sexual misconduct with minors has now qualified to run for the same judge seat he has been suspended from for years. St. John the Baptist Parish…
By John Simerman | NOLA.com | July 14, 2020 Arthur Hunter, who parlayed a brief stint as a New Orleans police officer into more than two decades as a Criminal Court judge known as a champion for public defenders, has announced that he will join an intensifying race for Orleans Parish District Attorney. Hunter,…
By Matt Sledge | NOLA.com | July 13, 2020 For more than four years after her daughter Renata was stabbed to death in St. Roch, Bobbie Vaughn has been waiting for the alleged killer to go on trial. Vaughn, 72, prays every day that God will give her the strength to go on. She is…
By Nicholas Chrastil | The Lens | July 2, 2020 The New Orleans Safety and Freedom Fund, an organization that posts bail for people being held at the New Orleans jail, is planning on bailing out dozens of people over the July 4 weekend. Montrell Carmouche, who heads the organization, said the group plans to…
By Danae Columbus | Uptown Messenger | July 2, 2020 Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche said yesterday that NOPD Superintendent Shaun D. Ferguson deserves the highest accolades for his handling of the department since the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests began. “Chief Ferguson has been dealing with an issue that no police chief…
By John Simerman, Michelle Hunter and Ramon Antonio Vargas | NOLA.com-The New Orleans Advocate | June 27, 2020 A shooting last month that left a Black welder dead in Marrero after he bolted from deputies was only the latest episode of fatal force by Jefferson Parish deputies to raise suspicions that will not be settled…