This comes after several reports and allegations that Mayor Latoya Cantrell urged Kirkpatrick to hold up promotions due to ...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is addressing recent posts by the Instagram account EmpowerYouNOLA, which has shared names and photos of juveniles allegedly involved in criminal ...

resisting an officer with force, and battery of a dating partner involving strangulation. He remained jailed Friday in lieu of $1.1 million bond, online court records show. NOPD Superintendent ...

which includes scoring on officers' backgrounds and experience by a panel of NOPD deputy chiefs. Kirkpatrick said then that she was responding to complaints of bias in those evaluations ...

Rates of force by the NOPD have steadily increased since 2018 ... acknowledged that identifying and reducing bias is “a never-ending task” for the department: “In some ways, this box ...

Even though uses of force have inched up in more recent years, especially among Black women, numbers are down overall when compared to the year NOPD first entered the decree. Stops, searches and ...