Hundreds of local, state and federal authorities are scrambling to find seven inmates who bolted out of a New Orleans jail Friday, sprinted across an interstate and vanished.

New Orleans' police force secretly used continual facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

NOPD crime stats show a decrease in gun arrests and seizures, but highlight significant arrests for violent crimes.

New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and protect citizens' civil rights.

Officials on increased the reward for the capture of inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet.

One person was killed in a Hollygrove shooting Sunday afternoon, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Gunfire was reported to police at 1:40 p.m. near the intersection of Edinburgh and Eagle streets. There, officers found a person wounded in a car. Paramedics declared the victim dead on scene, police said.

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Network of face recognition surveillance cameras distinguishes New Orleans as the worst abuser of this technology in the nation