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Michelle Woodfork NOPD
December 21, 2022
Michelle Woodfork has been named the interim chief of NOPD, becoming the first Black woman to lead the department.
December 13, 2022
Uber driver Yolanda Dillion was stabbed to death by a man police said just wanted to kill someone, then posted…
March 11, 2022
Warren Woodfork Sr., the first Black police superintendent for the New Orleans Police Department, died Wednesday, the department announced.
August 23, 2021
Detective Everett Briscoe, a 13-year police veteran, had recently earned his bachelor's degree from Southern University.
August 23, 2015
The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina comes at a time when we must remind ourselves that #BlackLivesMatter, but black lives…
March 11, 2013
NBC LOS ANGELES - Family and friends held a prayer vigil on Sunday for a former "Teacher of the Year"…
July 26, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -— A court-backed plan to excise corruption, discrimination and a frequent use of deadly force from the…
April 4, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge sentenced five former police officers to years in prison for the deadly shootings…
April 4, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A case that became the centerpiece of the Justice Department's push to clean up the troubled…
July 16, 2010
VIDEO - The indictments of eleven former and current New Orleans police officers, connected to the deadly shootings on the…
November 25, 2009
VIDEO - A woman being booked into the Orleans Parish Prison in Louisiana escaped by walking out two doors after…