In the history of modern policing, few figures loom larger than Bill Bratton. When he served as the police chief in New York and Los Angeles, Bratton pioneered the use of CompStat. This data-driven ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor LaToya Cantrell improperly interfered in the New Orleans Police Department’s merit-based promotion process when she argued it was biased against a demoted former commander, the ...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says NOPD officer promotions are now paused as five independent assessors can review the promotional process. Kirkpatrick also says the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A new report from the New Orleans Civil Service Commission finds that New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell tried to manipulate police department promotions. The ruling states that ...

WELL, TODAY, CITY OFFICIALS HELD A CEREMONY TO PROMOTE SOME OFFICERS WITHIN NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT. THIS COMES AFTER WE TOLD YOU SUPERINTENDENT ANN KIRKPATRICK PAUSED ALL PROMOTIONS BACK IN ...

A proposed state law that would reform the police civil service promotion process for high-ranking positions in Lafayette has been sent to the governor’s desk after sailing through the Legislature.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Wednesday that Mayor LaToya Cantrell recently "paused" a round of high-ranking police promotions, a decision that has drawn the ire of police ...

Reviews by outside assessors, federal monitors and the New Orleans Office of Inspector General found no evidence of bias or cheating in the promotions process for police captain and major, and a ...