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

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 down monitoring.

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

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Police Department’s decade-long consent decree is poised to make a pivotal decision — whether to begin to wind down the reform agreement that has touched nearly every aspect of policing in the city.

WASHINGTON – Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of the few in Congress not hemming and hawing about President Donald Trump freeing the protestors who stormed the Capitol on Jan.

The Louisiana State Police for years have used excessive force during arrests and vehicle pursuits, a statewide pattern of misconduct that places the public at “serious risk of harm,” according to a scathing report released Thursday by the U.

The United States Department of Justice announced Thursday that the Louisiana State Police have been found to engage in unconstitutional practices, including excessive use of force, unjustified

During a public comment period, community watchdogs raised a host of concerns — many tied directly to original mandates from the 2013 reform pact the city had promised the Justice Department it would implement. Police ... group New Orleans United Front ...

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

Shifting positions: Trump administration officials continued to reverse or revise the government’s stance on multiple fronts, including active Supreme Court cases, Jan. 6 prosecutions, school book bans, foreign aid programs and gender definitions. Mr. Trump also reinstated a Republican anti-abortion policy known as the “Mexico City Rule.”

The commutation of corrupt cop Len Davis' federal death penalty sentence is a hypocritical moved by President Joe Biden, and shows the lack of standards in the Department of Justice.