Days before a devastatingly negative report revealed severe problems within the New Orleans Police Department task forces – which were disbanded in May – Mayor LaToya Cantrell argued that it is time to end federal oversight. “We’ve demonstrated that we embrace reforms,” Cantrell said. “We’ve demonstrated that we have set the foundation to continue constitutional […]
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor LaToya Cantrell today released the following open letter regarding peaceful protests in the City and demonstrations by local hospitality workers: An Open Letter, from Mayor LaToya Cantrell: To the people of New Orleans: We are at a pivotal moment when systematic racism, structural inequality and a global pandemic have converged to challenge […]
A high-ranking employee with the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP) recently made social media posts glorifying violence against protesters. One post joked openly about shooting them. Adam Brickeen is Communications Chief for the New Orleans Real-Time Crime Center, according to his LinkedIn profile. Brickeen is also NOHSEP liaison for the […]
On August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King stepped onto a podium in front of 250,000 people and begin to speak. The speech he delivered would eventually go down in history as one of the greatest examples of American rhetoric that has ever been composed. Nearly midway through his speech, King was prompted by Mahalia […]
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it certainly takes a movement to undo an occupation.” -Ruth Wilson Gilmore Since 2004, the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC) — which includes Women With A Vision, Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, Voice of the Experienced, and New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial […]
Less than two years after Mayor Cantrell generated controversy by seeking to re-hire Warren Riley, who presided over the NOPD operations during the heinous instances of post-Katrina police brutality, the New Orleans Police Department continues to name officers with connections to the Danziger Bridge shooting and other civil rights violations to leadership positions within the force […]
September 11, 2001. The day that changed the United States forever. The day that 2,997 people lost their lives as a direct result of terrorist action against the United States. But it didn’t end there. Since then over 16,000 responders have gotten sick as a direct result of their presence at the scene of the […]
It is incumbent for our community to understand the problem in order to truly address it.
Painting the police as allies erases a history rooted in suppressing labor movements and minorities.
In a kind, if late gesture, the NOPD has debuted a special Pride-themed badge for officers to wear in support of New Orleans LGBT community
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