A federal judge has announced her decision on the New Orleans Police Department's yearslong consent decree. Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year sustainment period, signaling the ...

The proposed NOPD consent decree between the federal government and Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration doesn't represent enough of the interests of the citizens of New Orleans or police ...

On Tuesday, community members gathered to discuss public safety and the New Orleans Police Department's consent decree. Many are in total opposition to a potential end to the federal consent decree.

In the decade NOPD has been under the consent decree, the department has made substantial improvements in a range of categories including use of force, crisis intervention, stop, search and arrest.

NOPD would be at consent decree’s end were it not for mayor’s mistakes, says watchdog The New Orleans Police Department is preparing for a two-year phase out of the federal consent decree.

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan speaks during an NOPD Consent Decree hearing at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law on Friday, January 25, 2019.

A proposal to wind down the New Orleans Police Department’s longstanding federal consent decree is drawing pushback from critics who say the department needs ongoing oversight.. At a series of ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A new development emerged in the NOPD’s federal consent decree on Friday, Sept. 27. The City of New Orleans and the Department of Justice are reportedly asking a federal ...

The NOPD has been operating under a consent decree for more than eight years after a U.S. Department of Justice investigation in 2011 uncovered a culture of corruption and a pattern of civil ...

The consent decree was a result of a 2011 report by the DOJ that alleged NOPD had a pattern of excessive force, discriminatory policing and excessive searches and seizures.

“The millions of taxpayer dollars sucked up by the Consent Decree after there was no longer an underlying Constitution violation are the very funds NOPD needed to keep the City safe,” the AG ...

Under the consent decree, NOPD has made progress over the years on the handling of sexual assault cases, including hiring social workers, establishing a dedicated sexual assault response team and ...