Worth remembering: When NOPD drew on community culture to fight crime
Cops once backed an array of community programs to build trust.
Category: Criminal Justice
The NOPD is downgrading the importance of some calls to focus on life-threatening emergencies
The New Orleans Police Department has reduced response times for emergencies. They’ve done that in part by lowering the importance of some 911 calls. Department leaders say they need to prioritize life-threatening situations in order to manage the workload. But are they overlooking some true emergencies?
Rebuttal: Cop killings are a legacy of criminalizing people for being black
Black Lives Matter advocates push back against the race and crime analysis in a recent Lens column.
Black Lives Matter — including the 99.7% of the killings that aren’t by cops
It's time to face reality: black killers are chiefly responsible for the epidemic of black homicides.
An ex-offender’s bold experiment: turning trashed lives into treasure
A thrift-store provides hope and a first step back into the free world for the formerly incarcerated.
The fire this time: What will history say about a nation so prone to violence?
We may be near a turning point, but will it be a push back against hatred or a deeper dive into the abyss?
The Gusman mess: Maybe it’s time to reconsider how we pick our sheriffs
Is running a jail all that different from the responsibilities that come with other important city jobs?
State says it’s still waiting on Gusman to prove deputies should get extra pay
Gusman hasn’t provided proper paperwork to show they’re eligible for a $500 monthly pay bump.
Questions over conduct of Louisiana prosecutors is before Supreme Court
A landmark decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 requires prosecutors to turn over all information that could help a criminal defendant. A recent case out of Louisiana closely tracks the facts in that case, defense attorneys say, adding that it's nothing new. But prosecutors and the state justices say the withheld information would not have made a difference.
Executions in Louisiana on hold until at least January 2018
The state didn't say exactly why it needs more time, but execution drugs are scarce nationwide.
