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NOPD faces challenges in the new year NOPD faces challenges in the new year By Natasha Robin | January 7, 2021 at 5:32 PM CST - Updated January 7 at 6:36 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Chief Shaun Ferguson wants to re-assure the public that his department will remain committed to stopping crime, but he says they face some serious challenges in 2021. 202 people became murder victims last year, compared to 120 murders the year before. That’s a 71 percent increase. Shootings are up 69 percent and armed robberies are up 22 percent, most of those were carjackings. Chief Ferguson pointed out, the N...

Witnesses, and i think that the new orleans police at the time were betting on the fact that the people that were killed -- right -- were just poor blacks. i hate to say it but that's the case. and ronald madison came from a well-establish new orleans family, dentist in the family, doctors in the family, and they never gave up. it is the madison family that really pushed this to justice. it is just sad that it's taken so long to get this far. >> so what is the next step? >> well, the next step is to expose this and i guess a federal civil rights lawsuit that attorney general eric holder is hol...

valves on its new containment cap. >> yeah. and those crucial integrity tests have been put on hold. the reason why -- according to bp, they say they need more time to analyze how they're going to be doing the testing procedures and, because of that, they want to wait before they begin the complicated tests. the stakes are so high, that retired admiral thad allen is actually refusing to put any odds on success knowing that the fate of the gulf and bp may rest on whether this cap is the fix to stop the gushing oil. our david mattingly is live in new orleans. you had a chance yesterday...