Crime analysts, crime lab workers, social workers and police technicians are among the civilian positions slated for elimination under proposed 2027 budget cuts to the New Orleans Police Department.
The cuts, which would slash approximately 62 full-time-equivalent positions, would save the city an estimated $4.3 million. But some criminal justice experts are raising alarms about how the changes could affect an understaffed department, especially as the agency has made strides in crime prevention.
NOPD, meanwhile, advised that the cuts aren’t set in stone yet…