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

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

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan is set to rule Tuesday on a plan for the New Orleans Police Department to enter a two-year ...

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

After years of federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department is entering the final phase of the consent decree.

Since 2013, the NOPD has been under an expansive consent decree, intended to reshape virtually every aspect of the agency, with court-appointed monitors closely tracking its progress. Now ...

NOPD is now on a two-year exit ramp from a federal consent decree that brought major changes to the department over the past ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A pivotal decision in the future of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is expected Tuesday (Jan. 14) morning as U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan will rule on whether the ...

Morgan said she would decide if the NOPD is ready to move one step closer to ending its more than a decade-long consent decree on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Morgan recognized that some members of the ...

According to the attorney general's office, taxpayers in Orleans Parish have spent millions of dollars and police have spent multiple hours in court instead of working.

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