After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major step toward independence.

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight following a damning Department of Justice report dating back to 2011.

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday.

In a joint statement, Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said, “Now is the time to end NOPD’s consent decree and return control of policing to the City—the brave men and women who serve in the NOPD deserve recognition for the hard work and commitment to this community that they have demonstrated over the last decade.”

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said the police department has transformed itself into a more transparent and accountable agency.

After years of federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department is entering the final phase of the consent decree.

REPORTING LIVE FROM FEDERAL COURT, JON A federal judge has announced her decision on the New Orleans Police Department's yearslong consent decree. Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year ...

The New Orleans Police Department now has two years to show it can sustain the reforms instituted of the last dozen years under the federal consent decree, a judge ruled Tuesday.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration has joined Attorney General Liz Murrill in asking a federal judge to rule on a motion to end the long-running consent decree over the city's police force.

NEW ORLEANS (AP ... though work remains to be done, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said during a hearing. Morgan approved a two-year “sustainment period” to allow the NOPD to fix ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP ... Department to start wrapping up the monitoring program. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said the police department has transformed itself into a more transparent and ...

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan is set to rule Tuesday on a plan for the New Orleans Police Department to enter a two-year "sustainment" period that marks the last phase of a federal consent decree that has governed the city's police force since 2013.