New Orleans moves to end federal oversight of police →

-CTV NEWS
🔷”New Orleans officials asked a federal judge Tuesday to end court-supervised oversight of its police department under a pact negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department a decade ago, after deadly police shootings of civilians following Hurricane Katrina cast renewed scrutiny on the scandal-plagued department. The consent decree was approved by a federal judge in January 2013. It was the result of a 2011 Justice Department investigation invited by then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who took office in 2010.”
🔷“The hearing was set after Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Police Chief Shaun Ferguson publicly called for termination of the pact, describing it, now, as an unnecessary bureaucratic burden on a department that is short on manpower amid pandemic-era boost in violent crime. ‘Any systemic violations of federal law were remedied years ago,’ according to the city's filing Tuesday. In an accompanying memo, the city's attorneys argue that even if the court finds that the city hasn't reached full compliance with all elements of the decree, ‘it is undeniable that NOPD has substantially and materially satisfied the constitutional goals of the Decree in good faith, and eliminated the systemic violations of federal law identified by the DOJ's 2011 investigation.’” 🤣
🔷”The motion to end the consent decree comes as gunshot deaths and carjackings have increased in the past two years, while the department has dwindled to well under 1,000 people, down from more than 1,300 a few years ago. Cantrell has said the bureaucratic demands imposed by the decree add to the workload on the dwindling force.”
🔷👉”Still, some are skeptical that the consent decree is the main problem.” 👈