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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.
The William J. Fischer Housing Development, better known as the Fischer Projects, was a housing project in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.It was known notoriously for a series of high-profile murders in the 1970s and 1980s. [1]
June 3, 2001: Fourth District police officer Kevin Smith fatally shot 18-year-old Erik Daniels who was being served an arrest warrant for aggravated battery. New Orleans Police Department reported he was shot in the chest around 3 p.m. in the 2300 block of Murl Street and died shortly after the shooting at Charity Hospital. Police spokesman Lt ...
Journeymen in the pipe trades in the 1880s worked in three basic crafts: plumbers, steamfitters and gasfitters. The first truly successful national body, the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters, and Steam Fitters' Helpers of the United States and Canada, was officially founded on October 11, 1889.
The New Orleans Metropolitan Police was a racially integrated police force that existed in New Orleans from 1868 to 1877. [1] It was formed by combining the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard into a single police district known as the Metropolitan Police District, State of Louisiana. [1] [2]
The New Orleans Fire Department provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The department serves 378,715 people living in a 350 square miles (910 km 2) area, including 170 square miles (440 km 2) of water. [4] Fire Station 40 in the Algiers section of New Orleans
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 ...
In 1994, Davis beat a young man in New Orleans, mistaking him for a suspect in a police officer's shooting. [12] Kim Groves, a 32-year-old local resident and mother of three young children, witnessed the assault and filed a complaint with the New Orleans Police Department. [13]