New Orleans police arrested Emmitt Weber for allegedly helping inmates escape. Five fugitives, including those with serious charges, are still on the run.

New Orleans Police Department A composite of the 10 inmates who escaped the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility on May 16, 2025. Prisoners escape the New Orleans jail on May 16, 2025.

By JACK BROOK. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy while responding to a call is set to go to trial Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by the dog’s owners.

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) secretly received real-time, AI-generated alerts from 200 facial recognition cameras throughout the city for two ...

NEW ORLEANS — For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in ...

New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’ The city would become first in the U.S. to formally allow facial recognition as a tool for surveilling residents in real time.