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 city’s push to end the consent decree comes alongside a formal letter from the New Orleans City Council, which objects to the Louisiana attorney general’s involvement in the case, raising legal ...

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

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

WASHINGTON – Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of the few in Congress not hemming and hawing about President Donald Trump ...

The United States Department of Justice announced Thursday that the Louisiana State Police have been found to engage in ...

The Louisiana State Police for years have used excessive force during arrests and vehicle pursuits. That's according to a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...