Anne Kirkpatrick announced on WWL that, this past week, the New Orleans Police Department just onboarded its first official part-time officer, a step that the chief hopes will help alleviate the agency’s #1 issue: staffing.
“We had a large conference come into this city that was law enforcement,” Kirkpatrick explains. “These were national-level police chiefs, from Hawaii to Canada. The number one issue, not just for New Orleans, but for everyone, is staffing. Everyone’s hurting, and we continue to struggle trying to get back to any pre-pandemic levels.”
Despite an understaffed force, however, Kirkpatrick revealed that crime levels remain low and that the NOPD will issue a press release soon about how the department has “been working again with our partners to do a very proactive surge in our community of high-risk offenders.”…