Justice Department disputes city's arguments to halt NOPD consent decree in appellate court filing

In pushing for a temporary stay in the consent decree mandating widespread reform at NOPD, Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration is grossly overstating how expensive it will be for the city to promptly award a contract to a monitoring group for the agreement, federal officials said in a 26-page court filing Monday .



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