By Danae Columbus | Uptown Messenger | August 20, 2020 The Metropolitan Crime Commission (MCC), New Orleans’ premier criminal justice watchdog agency, is urging the New Orleans Police Department to refocus on violent offenders during a time when shootings and murders are surging and fewer arrests are being made for violent and weapons felony offenses.…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | August 18, 2020 City leaders can’t or won’t stand up to social justice reformers Every day seems to bring more bad news about crime in New Orleans. Like many of America’s major cities, New Orleans is experiencing an uptick in crime and gun violence, amid a vitriolic…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAMIAN LABEAUD (“LABEAUD”), age 48, of New Orleans, entered a plea of guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans. According…
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…