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

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that ...

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

The days after Hurricane Katrina were dark ones for New Orleans, and in particular for its police department, some members of ...

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

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) ...

Judge Susie Morgan heard the New Orleans Police Department's plans for a sustainment period. The City of New Orleans and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion to begin the sustainment period.

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight. U.S. District ...

has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight following a damning Department of Justice report dating back to 2011. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan approved a ...

a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to wind down the monitoring program. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said the police department has ...

The police department has become a more transparent and accountable agency, though work remains to be done, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said ... by the city and Justice Department in ...