A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can ... the 2013 reform pact the city had promised the Justice Department it would implement. Police officials told the judge they are now trying ...

The New Orleans Police Department could be on the eve of emerging from the federal consent decree. A U.S. District Court judge will announce a decision Tuesday on whether the NOPD is ready to have ...

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick ... Tuesday after 12 years under a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department that she said has transformed the city's long-troubled ...

The city’s push to end the consent decree comes alongside a formal letter from the New Orleans City Council, which objects to the Louisiana attorney general’s involvement in the case, raising legal ...

The New Orleans Police Department is looking for a suspect in a shooting that happened while the city was still digging out ...

The Justice Department began its investigation of ... kinds of court-directed consent decrees that have governed the New Orleans Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationally ...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD ... comes in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to ...

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.

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.

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