New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has concerns about Mardi Gras 2023. During a town hall Thursday night, she spoke about one of the top concerns, which is NOPD manpower. Cantrell said the shortage of officers may impact big events like Mardi Gras. She said if there aren’t enough officers, there may be no Mardi Gras. “First of all, if we don’t have adequate police, it could mean that there will be no Mardi Gras. That’s a fact,” Cantrell said. “We have to ease the level of separations that we have seen and particularly align with burdens of this consent decree that that was the No. 1 piece. So it really is about retention.”NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson spoke at a Criminal Justice Committee meeting Friday where he confirmed that all options are on the table for Mardi Gras. “Everything is on the table, maybe asking for assistance from other agencies,” said Ferguson. “Now is the time to plan.”According to Ferguson, he is confident Carnival 2023 will happen. Cantrell said she spoke with numerous police officers about why they were leaving New Orleans. She said the No. 1 reason was the consent decree, which Cantrell has called for an end to. According to the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan stressed Wednesday that she was not commenting on the city’s motion to end the “consent decree” that imposed reform requirements on the department in 2013. A hearing on that motion hasn’t been scheduled yet. At Wednesday’s status hearing on the reform pact, Morgan issued orders for increased scrutiny of areas including the supervision of crime reporting, officers’ off-duty security jobs and the office that helps officers deal with mental health problems, according to a report by the Associated Press.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has concerns about Mardi Gras 2023.
During a town hall Thursday night, she spoke about one of the top concerns, which is NOPD manpower.
Cantrell said the shortage of officers may impact big events like Mardi Gras. She said if there aren’t enough officers, there may be no Mardi Gras.
“First of all, if we don’t have adequate police, it could mean that there will be no Mardi Gras. That’s a fact,” Cantrell said. “We have to ease the level of separations that we have seen and particularly align with burdens of this consent decree that that was the No. 1 piece. So it really is about retention.”
NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson spoke at a Criminal Justice Committee meeting Friday where he confirmed that all options are on the table for Mardi Gras.
“Everything is on the table, maybe asking for assistance from other agencies,” said Ferguson. “Now is the time to plan.”
According to Ferguson, he is confident Carnival 2023 will happen.
Cantrell said she spoke with numerous police officers about why they were leaving New Orleans. She said the No. 1 reason was the consent decree, which Cantrell has called for an end to.
According to the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan stressed Wednesday that she was not commenting on the city’s motion to end the “consent decree” that imposed reform requirements on the department in 2013.
A hearing on that motion hasn’t been scheduled yet.
At Wednesday’s status hearing on the reform pact, Morgan issued orders for increased scrutiny of areas including the supervision of crime reporting, officers’ off-duty security jobs and the office that helps officers deal with mental health problems, according to a report by the Associated Press.
