September 2008
More than three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans remains one of the nation’s most dangerous cities. Since the storm, we’ve seen: unprecedented cooperation between the New Orleans Police Department and other criminal justice agencies, federal agents teamed with NOPD officers; the...
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August 2008
If we expect the best of people, we are more likely to receive the best of people,” says Tulane University historian Lance Hill.
That is one of the lessons of the Holocaust and the story of Oskar Schindler, an improbable hero of World War II, Hill says. A German industrialist and...
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July 2008
This summer could be one of the worst for crime in recent memory. The 1,430 cops on the rebuilding New Orleans Police Department are no match for an estimated 50,000 juveniles in Orleans Parish, including thousands who have returned to the city since Katrina – without adult supervision.
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June 2008
National Guard troops in armored vehicles patrol New Orleans streets as the June drawdown date nears. Children as young as 14 rob pedestrians at gunpoint. Murders climb, despite millions of dollars in increased funding for cops and prisons.
“People are scared,” City Council President...
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May 2008
I was on the phone with a friend of mine and three shots rang out,” says “Lori” a professional researcher who lives near the Uptown Square shopping mall. Lori says she then told her girlfriend: “Mark the time, in case I have to testify.” Her friend replied, “You’ll know for sure when you hear the...
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April 2008
She died alone, murdered in broad daylight.
Now the body of 24-year-old New Orleans Police Officer Nicola Diane Cotton rests in a stone vault at the corner of Greenwood Cemetery, near City Park at Canal Boulevard. A two-year veteran of the NOPD, earlier this year Cotton became the second...
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December 2007
On the streets with NOPD homicide detectives
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