The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of New Orleans filed a motion in federal court on Sept. 27 seeking to begin the process of ending federal oversight of the city’s police department.
In a memorandum in support of the joint motion, attorneys for the city and the DOJ asked the court to find the former has “sufficiently complied” with a consent decree agreed upon in 2013 by the city and federal government to reform the police.
They further asked that the court allow the city to enter into a two-year “sustainment period,” during which, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) must prove it can keep up the various reforms implemented under the 2013 agreement….