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Lafayette Police responded early Wednesday to a report of a man hitting woman with a baseball bat, which led to a standoff with officers, LPD reports.
Lafayette Police arrived at North 7th Street and Union Street at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday for a reported stabbing.
— Two houses were struck by bullets early Monday in the 1400 block of North 15th Street, but no one was injured, Lafayette police said. About 12:25 a.m. Monday, police received calls of shots ...
The Lafayette Police Department is known nationally for the case of the Southside Rapist. From the early 1980s through 1995, a serial rapist preyed on women on the city's south side. After using all of the technology available to them, the LPD contacted and work with Dr. Kim Rossmo , who had developed a new type of profiling .
The Louisiana State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Lafayette Parish Sheriff, and Lafayette Police Department police participated in the investigation. Police believe the shooter acted alone, but have not confirmed a motive. [18] [29] [33] [34]
On May 31, several hundred people peacefully protested at a rally held at the corner of University Avenue and Johnston Street by the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. [11] After listening to speeches in Girard Hall, the crowd lined the sidewalks for a demonstration before marching to the Lafayette police station at the end of ...
A Lafayette Police officer and former football lineman, Marvin Martin, beat a man during an arrest, according to a federal lawsuit.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents. This is the largest ratio of policemen to residents of any state and compares to a national average of 251 to 100,000.