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Federal agents this week raided the office of the New Orleans Police Department homicide division, seizing the files and computer hard drives of two officers assigned to investigate police conduct in one deadly post-Katrina shooting episode, law enforcement sources told The Times-Picayune.
Baton Rouge's murder rate this year has risen to the point where, using FBI measurement standards, the city is way ahead of traditionally kill-prone cities like Cleveland, Newark, and even Detroit...
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The infamous $90,000 in cash found in the freezer of a former Louisiana congressman accused of taking bribes is evidence of nothing more than a failed FBI sting, a defense lawyer told jurors Tuesday.
Former Democratic Louisiana congressman William Jefferson, left, waves to members of the media while walking toward U.S. District Court with his wife Andrea Jefferson, in Alexandria, on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Jefferson is facing multiple charges including bribery after federal agents found $90,000 in cash in his freezer.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Though the city experienced a 17 percent drop in the number of violent crimes last year, New Orleans remains the nation's most murderous city by a wide margin, according to the FBI's annual report on national crime released Monday.
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The New Orleans Police Department sent out crime statistics Friday afternoon in an e-mailed news release. The rape and assault categories show the largest decline, last year there were 65 reported rapes compared to 115 reported in 2007, a 43 percent drop. Violent crimes dropped 17%, and property crime dropped 5%. READ STORY
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The FBI is conducting a preliminary review to determine if a federal investigation is warranted for the NOPD shooting last week in the death of New Orleans man. READ STORY
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by Gordon Russell and Frank Donze, The Times-Picayune
Saturday October 11, 2008, 10:23 PM
On a hot day in the summer of 2007, a sweaty-palmed Stan "Pampy" Barre fidgeted as he watched FBI agents cut crude holes in his $1,500 tailored Italian suit, planting a bug that would shortly be used to record a conversation with New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas. READ MORE
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Foreign Policy magazine, estimates that New Orleans has on average from 67 to 95 homicides per 100,000 per year. The 67 figure is from the New Orleans Police Department and the 95 figure is from the FBI, Foreign Policy reported.
New Orleans' average murder rate puts it in the company of cities like Cape Town, South Africa, which averages 62 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants yearly, and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, which averages a murder rate of 54 per 100,000 people, according to statistics compiled by Foreign Policy. READ MORE
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