The New Orleans Police Department has primary responsibility for law enforcement in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The department's jurisdiction covers all of Orleans Parish, while the city it
African American New Orleans Police officer, 1871, sketched by Alfred Waud
Battle of Liberty Place-charge on the police and militia
Mounted police during New Orleans Mardi Gras 1984
Battle of Liberty Place
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The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on Septembe
The "Louisiana Outrages", as illustrated in Harper's Weekly, 1874
James Longstreet after the Civil War
Frederick Nash Ogden