Officer connected to Serpas’ daughter totaled NOPD cruiser while driving drunk
Criminal drunk driving charges were dropped for the New Orleans Police Department officer, but city officials did not respond for requests for an explanation.
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NOPD might need consultant for password management
With the city on track to blow out its budget by $67 million this year, it’s obvious that some departments have been a little loose with their spending. But going over budget by 2,464 percent? And only halfway through the year? Really? That’s the rate of overspending on the line-item for consultants by the New [...]
Serpas’ daughter is connected to suspended NOPD officer
The adult daughter of a finalist for New Orleans police chief shares a house with one of the NOPD officers who was present at a Mid-City bar when off-duty colleagues allegedly beat a group of city transit workers, an event that is the subject of a FBI civil rights investigation.
Coalition wants intervention from feds in NOPD; Landrieu position is still unclear
Earlier today, more than two dozen organizations signed onto a letter addressed to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The letter calls on the Department of Justice to intervene in local police departments guilty of civil rights abuse, to sue the NOPD and to obtain a [...]
Ronald Davis or Ronal Serpas
Today, Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu announced that he had whittled down his choices for next NOPD superintendent to two but did not name them. A source with knowledge of the interview process has told The Lens that the two are current Nashville chief and former NOPD Deputy Ronal Serpas and current East Palo Alto top cop [...]
Trouble in the moonlighting
In addition to everything else going on with the local men and women in blue last week, a veteran NOPD detective, Herman Franklin, was charged with payroll fraud. The Times-Picayune notes that there is some controversy over the prosecutor’s decision, at first, to remand the detective and another officer to an alternative sentencing program that [...]
Friday Cop News Drop
1. Fourth NOPD officer charged in Danziger Bridge shooting and cover up Officer Robert Barrios was charged in a bill of information Friday, which could indicate that – like Michael Lohman, Michael Hunter, and Jeffrey Lehrmann before him – he will plead guilty. Additionally, Marion David Ryder, the civilian who posed as a deputy sheriff [...]
Justice Department confirms consideration of consent decree lawsuit against NOPD
This is precisely why Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu’s transition task force is generating so much attention. Yesterday afternoon, Talking Points Memo caught up with Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, who heads the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. He confirmed the feds are considering suing the NOPD to force reform measures under court order and federal [...]
Amid gunfire, Landrieu throws the weakest brick of all
Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu was awfully defensive in last week’s press conference about his search for a new police superintendent. Responding to internal criticism from four now-former members of his transition task force, Landrieu accused those who went public with their objections of being divisive. “People in this town have learned how to throw bricks rather [...]
It ain’t hot potato: Landrieu must clutch chief search
Danatus King of the NAACP Baty Landis of Silence is Violence Gina Womack of Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children Norris Henderson of VOTE These are community leaders and important stakeholders in efforts to reform our criminal justice system and repair our broken police department. They were all named to Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu’s 21-member [...]