People suffering from mental health issues in New Orleans deserve help not handcuffs. They need professionals with mental health training, not guns, to provide them with medical care that will solve the problems they are dealing with, not worsen them. Adults with untreated severe mental health issues generate one in ten calls to the police […]
Due to a steep decrease in COVID-19 cases, New Orleans moved into Modified Phase Three COVID-19 restrictions this month. These relaxed requirements reduced the curfew placed on bars so they can now stay open until 1 AM, increased the permitted amount of people allowed to gather indoors and outdoors, to 150 and 250 respectively, and, […]
On Saturday night, an NOPD officer shot and killed a four-and-a-half-month-old puppy named Apollo in the Lower Garden District. Two officers had responded to a noise disturbance call, opening the gate of a home on the 1400 block of Felicity Street. The home belonged to Derek Brown and Julie Barecki-Brown, a married couple who had […]
In 2013, a U.S. Department of Justice investigation found that the New Orleans Police Department had established a pattern of unconstitutional policing, including regularly using unjustified force against citizens, making unlawful arrests without probable cause, and discriminating against BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals. As a result of the investigation, a consent decree was put into place […]
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), in partnership with the New Orleans Department's Domestic Violence Program, will now ask domestic violence victims about the presence of firearms at every domestic violence incident.
(Updated with statement from NOPD) Claiborne Avenue is known for a variety of reasons. Besides its large homeless encampments, it is also a party spot, a place where people can do everything from listening to good music to getting their car washed. It’s also a place for good food. And Kermit Ruffins at Kermit’s Treme […]
Devin Tucker had a harrowing experience with the Jefferson Parish Police Last week on December 16th after they were called to assist him in a mental health crisis. They were supposed to pick him up from the Coroner’s Office and transport him to West Jefferson Hospital since Tucker, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was […]
Last month, we covered how the NOPD lied about using racially-biased facial recognition software. The not-so-shocking truth was that their continual and adamant denials of using the software were all lies and that they had been using it for years through federal partners. Just this week, a slew of emails were released that confirmed their […]
The New Orleans Police Department is responding to a bomb threat in the French Quarter.
For years, the New Orleans Police Department has been lying about using facial recognition software, hiding their use of it from the public by never bringing it up on their own volition, and denying their use of it when directly questioned about it. As recently as July, Ross Bourgeois, a representative of the Real Time […]
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