New Orleans Police Department
Municipal police department in Louisiana, U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has primary responsibility for law enforcement in New Orleans, Louisiana. The department's jurisdiction covers all of Orleans Parish, while the city is divided into eight police districts.
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New Orleans Police Department | |
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Abbreviation | NOPD |
Agency overview | |
Formed | 1796 |
Employees | 1457 (2020) |
Annual budget | $194 million (2020)[1] |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
Map of New Orleans Police Department's jurisdiction | |
Size | 350.2 square miles (907 km2) |
Population | 383,997 (2020 census) |
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Operational structure | |
Headquarters | 715 S. Broad Street |
Officers | 959 (2023) |
Agency executive | |
Bureaus | 5 |
Facilities | |
Districts | 8 |
Central lockups | 1 |
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The NOPD has a long history of civil rights violations, corruption and poor oversight.[2] Since 2012, the NOPD has been in a federal consent decree where it has to implement sweeping reforms to address a wide array of structural problems identified by the U.S. Department of Justice in a 2011 report.[3][4]