After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major ...

The New Orleans Police Department can begin ending its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a ...

Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year sustainment period, signaling the beginning of the end of the consent decree.

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a report Thursday evening finding that Louisiana State Police employs practices that ...

The Louisiana State Police for years have used excessive force during arrests and vehicle pursuits. That's according to a ...

Justice Department career officials were reassigned to advance Donald Trump's immigration agenda, an official familiar with ...

NOPJF, a nonprofit organization, has contracted Teneo to lead a public safety assessment of the city. The Teneo team will be led by risk and security expert William J. Bratton.

The federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Police Department’s decade-long consent decree is poised to make a pivotal ...

Instead, the judge said she was sticking to the joint motion filed by the city and Justice Department in September ... the civic advocacy group New Orleans United Front and attended most of ...

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight following a damning Department of Justice report dating back to 2011. U.S.

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight. U.S. District ...

NEW ORLEANS — (AP) — The New Orleans Police Department can begin ending its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice ...