Since 1992, more than 30 of New Orleans’ 1,500 police officers have been arrested. In just the last year, four have been charged with murder, including an officer who allegedly ordered the execution of a woman who accused him of misconduct. Despite giving high marks to the city’s reform...
New Orleans Police Officers Have the Best Moves at Mardi Gras (Posted 2014-03-04 19:48:11)Jennings, Natalie
But only New Orleans has the one and only world-famous Mardi Gras. The 2016 installment was a… » Read More #ThrowbackThursday: Police Officer Doing the Wobble at Parade January 21, 2016 | #ThrowbackThursday: New Orleans police officers were filmed dancing to 'Wobble Baby' by V.I....
Nov 18, 2024 | Client Memo FLSA Salary Basis Threshold Will NOT Increase in January 2025 On Friday, November 15, 2024, a federal judge in Texas invalidated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule raising the minimum salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) executive...
Over the past year, state policies on police interactions with juveniles have come under the microscope, with concerns raised over directives which bar officers from speaking with, arresting or notifying parents about illegal activities in certain circumstances. Under social justice legislation adopted ove...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — MayorMitch Landrieuis asking the New Orleans City Council to move four Confederate monuments and possibly replace them with symbols of the city's "culture, unity, hope and future." They include an obelisk known locally as the white supremacy monument. It originally commemor...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police used a stun device to subdue a man who brandished a machete in a park across from New Orleans City Hall.
29, devastating the region in general and New Orleans in particular as biblical flooding swamped the region when the area's flawed and dated levee systems failed. The Times-Picayune headline summed up the desperation of the people trapped in the deadly aftermath, which was exacerbated by an ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas’ plans to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. will remain on hold under a federal appeals court order that likely prevents enforcement of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s new immigration law until a broader d
Sheriffs were then compensated by fees rather than a fixed salary, which meant that, in New York County, the incumbent could legitimately become a millionaire—without grafting or stealing—within a year. Mr. Murphy finally had to call Smith in for a meeting at which he explained things: “...