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Susan Hutson is an American lawyer who has been the sheriff of New Orleans, Louisiana, since May 2, 2022.A Democrat, Hutson is the first woman to hold the office. [1] Before becoming sheriff, she worked in criminal justice reform and police oversight.
The formation of the New Orleans Police Department was first recorded in 1796, during the administration of Baron Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet. The account said, "Crime had reached such proportions by the mid-1790s that a full-time city police force was required." [5] The New Orleans police were highly militarized from the late 1700s ...
Anne Kirkpatrick (born 1959) is an American law enforcement officer and the current superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department. Prior to New Orleans, she was the former chief of the Spokane Police Department and the first woman to head the Oakland Police Department.
(The Center Square) — The New Orleans Police Department is grappling with a staffing crisis, with officer numbers at their lowest since the 1940s and facing mounting financial penalties for ...
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill noted a number of similarities between ... the perpetrator of the New Orleans event professed allegiance to ISIS, according to law enforcement, and the ...
In the first week after the storm, Sheriff Lee and Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson Jr ordered Gretna police officers and Jefferson Parish deputies [8] to set up a roadblock on the Crescent City Connection and prevent New Orleans [9] evacuees from crossing. This action has been praised by some Gretna residents but criticized by many Orleans ...
HOUSTON — While police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation continue their investigation into a terrorist act that killed at least 15 and injured more than 30 on New Year's Eve in New Orleans ...
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.