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 (NOPD) has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight ...

Instead, the judge said she was sticking to the joint motion filed by the city and Justice Department in September last year ... who chairs the civic advocacy group New Orleans United Front and ...

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

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 ...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) ...

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, a statewide pattern of ...

Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured when a pickup truck plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

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

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

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling Tuesday came in response to a request ...