A reporter's inside story of an increasingly common crime
| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor SMACKDOWN: A day after the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office disclosed it plans to equip its officers with body cameras, a video recorded by a bystander shows a deputy grabbing a woman's hair and slamming her to the pavement. It's part of a pattern of what critics call brutal treatment by deputies of Black people. A VICTIM'S VIEW: Last year saw the highest number of carjackings in New Orleans in a decade, according to police records, and this year is on track to eclipse it. Our reporter Missy Wilkinson was researching the trend when she herself was carjacked - and lived to write about it. WETLANDS WAYLAID: Satellite photos taken six weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted southeast Louisiana show its storm surge, waves and winds devastated a large swath of wetlands in the north central Barataria Basin, gashing a coastal buffer that helps protect 1 million people from flooding. The images illustrate how the Category 4 hurricane delivered at least a temporary knockout to this part of a fragile coast that is the focus of a $50 billion, 50-year effort to restore and protect the southern third of the state from disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks for starting your day with us. Catch the latest news all day at NOLA.com. D.B. |
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| A JPSO deputy was caught on video slamming a woman's head so hard into the pavement on Sept. 20 that a witness said it ripped several of her braids from her scalp. Read more |
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| The first time the guy in the hooded sweatshirt and face covering passed my car, I ignored the needle prick of fear that ran through me. It was 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2. I was parked and Googling directions to a costume party, dressed as a peacock. Read more |
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| Category 4 storm's surge, waves ripped up marsh grasses and washed them away Read more |
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