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Investigative reporting by The Times-Picayune | The Advocate and NOLA.com revealed widespread police impunity in Louisiana, showing that at least 228 officers convicted of serious crimes over the past decade largely retained their law enforcement credentials due to failures by the understaffed Peace Officer Standards and Training Council.

The ACLU of Louisiana reached a settlement in a civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of a Black motorist who alleged that a police officer in Jackson, Louisiana, violently slammed him to the ground, knocked him unconscious, and arrested him after a racially charged traffic stop.

A new analysis by the Innocence Project New Orleans reveals that many Louisiana law enforcement agencies are failing to comply with a 2017 state law that requires them to report why officers leave their jobs to the Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST), a key step in preventing “wandering officers” from moving between departments without accountability.

The Police Sexual Violence in New Orleans factsheet, published by the Umbrella Coalition and Advancement Project, reveals that complaints of sexual and intimate violence against community members by New Orleans Police Department officers are pervasive and ongoing, with a complaint filed against an NOPD officer nearly every ten days between 2014 and 2020;