After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major ...

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 wind ...

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

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

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. That's according to a ...

The federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Police Department’s decade-long consent decree is poised to make a pivotal ...

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

The New Orleans Police Department can begin ending its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a ...

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight ...

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