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 — 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 Department to ...

THE NEW ORLEANS ... ago by the United States Department of Justice due to unconstitutional policing. For years, the city has been pushing to end the consent decree, saying the New Orleans Police ...

A federal judge on Tuesday placed the New Orleans Police ... New Orleans United Front. "I'm ready to move on, and I hope the federal judge, the monitor and the Department of Justice do what ...

Bourbon Street, the site of a deadly New Year’s Day attack, is closed to traffic at night, one of many measures intended to ...

Over 2,000 federal, state and local law enforcement officers are on the ground in New Orleans to ensure massive crowds for ...

The US District Court ... on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) can end its longstanding federal oversight, thus approving the sustainment plan. The decision comes in response to a ...

In 2013, the City of New Orleans agreed to what it called “the nation’s most expansive” federal oversight plan after a U.S. Justice Department investigation found evidence of racial bias ...

At such a critical moment in US ... New Orleans Police Department can begin winding down its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the ...

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 Department ...