The New Orleans Police Department is reassigning 22 officers from various districts and divisions across the city to a newly formed gang unit, according to a report by WVUE-TV on ...

landrieu-gang-unit-presser. Surrounded by a bevy of state and federal law-enforcement officials, Mayor Landrieu, center, announces a new NOPD multi-agency gang unit on Nov. 8.

But NOPD spokeswoman Remi Braden says, "The officers who make up the unit are not officers who responded to 'calls for service', but were previously assigned to district task forces to make ...

Just two weeks before Saturday’s mass shooting on Claiborne Avenue, members of the NOPD's street gang unit were transferred to another department as part of a shift in how the department combats ...

The New Orleans Police Department's homicide investigators will soon have a new commander, about three months after a workplace harassment complaint apparently forced his predecessor out of the unit.

The New Orleans Police Department fired a 15-year veteran of the force on Wednesday after investigators said the officer committed payroll fraud, violating the department's paid detail policy.