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New Orleans Police, Plagued by Scandal, to Enact Reforms

Taking aim at a long history of civil rights abuses, corruption and slipshod oversight within the New Orleans Police Department, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu unfurled a bevy of sweeping reforms in the nation's most expansive consent decree to date.

Taking aim at a long history of civil rights abuses, corruption and slipshod oversight within the New Orleans Police Department, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu unfurled a bevy of sweeping reforms in the nation's most expansive consent decree to date.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.