{"id":1782263,"date":"2022-12-21T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782263"},"modified":"2022-12-21T06:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:33:25","slug":"new-orleans-mayor-appoints-temporary-police-superintendent-amid-crime-surge-recall-effort-against-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-orleans-mayor-appoints-temporary-police-superintendent-amid-crime-surge-recall-effort-against-her\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Mayor Appoints Temporary Police Superintendent Amid Crime Surge, Recall Effort Against Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-orleans-mayor-appoints-temporary-police-superintendent-amid-crime-surge-recall-effort-against-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Embattled New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell appointed a temporary police superintendent Monday to replace the police department&#8217;s outgoing chief amid a surge in violent crime and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-orleans-recall-effort-mayor-latoya-cantrells-lavish-trips-scrutinized-city-becomes-murder-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recall effort against her<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Cantrell tapped New Orleans police Capt. Michelle Woodfork to become the first female police superintendent in the history of the New Orleans Police Department beginning Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Woodfork will replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-orleans-police-superintendent-retires-amid-controversy-americas-murder-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOPD\u00a0Superintendent Shaun Ferguson<\/a>, who led the department for four years before announcing his retirement last month. She is also a 32-year veteran of the force and the niece of former NOPD Superintendent Warren Woodfork.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-orleans-police-superintendent-retires-amid-controversy-americas-murder-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>NEW ORLEANS SUPERINTENDENT POLICE CHIEF RETIRES AMID CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA&#8217;S MURDER CAPITAL<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/Cantrellwoodfork.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and newly appointed interim New Orleans Police Department Supt. Michelle Woodfork.\u00a0\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and newly appointed interim New Orleans Police Department Supt. Michelle Woodfork.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Mayor LaToya Cantrell)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I am laser-focused on leaving the New Orleans Police Department in the best possible state that it can be when it is my time to retire,&#8221; Woodfork said during a Monday news conference to announce her interim appointment. &#8220;My number one priority is to protect and serve the citizens and visitors of the great city of New Orleans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City leaders have called on Cantrell to conduct a national search for a new chief. She would have to get approval from the City Council to appoint a permanent chief after Jan. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital has reached out to the mayor&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson&#8217;s tenure as chief was marked by a number of setbacks, including the Hard Rock Hotel building collapse in the city&#8217;s French Quarter, dwindling police manpower as more officers leave the department and an uptick in violent crime. The city is in the midst of experiencing a post-pandemic surge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homicides and carjackings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/woodfork.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Newly appointed interim New Orleans Police Department Supt. Michelle Woodfork.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Newly appointed interim New Orleans Police Department Supt. Michelle Woodfork.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(New Orleans Police Department)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have time to waste,&#8221; Cantrell said Monday. &#8220;Every day will continue to count as it relates to moving our department forward, strengthening our operations, our crime-fighting efforts and, of course, pivoting very heavily on retention and recruitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson&#8217;s departure comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-orleans-set-murder-capital-us-mayor-latoya-cantrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cantrell faces a recall effort<\/a> one year after easily winning re-election. Recall organizers have cited the city&#8217;s crime woes as well as the mayor&#8217;s questionable overseas trips and travel spending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The national term &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/workplace-quiet-quitting-trend-pitfalls-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>quiet quitting<\/u><\/a>,&#8217; that&#8217;s what our mayor has done,&#8221; Eileen Carter, Cantrell\u2019s former social media manager who partnered with Belden &#8220;Noonie Man&#8221; Batiste, a former New Orleans mayoral candidate, to file the recall petition over the summer, previously told Fox News Digital. &#8220;Our mayor literally won&#8217;t say the word \u2018crime.&#8217; She has disassociated herself from crime. She refuses to be involved it in at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics have said Cantrell has done little to address the city&#8217;s crime problem. In September, New Orleans overtook St, Louis, Missouri to become the country&#8217;s so-called &#8220;murder capital.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Citywide, homicides in which a firearm was used were up nearly 24% as of Tuesday, according to police data. Armed robberies are also up 49% as well compared to 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell appointed a temporary police superintendent Monday to replace the police department&#8217;s outgoing chief amid a surge in violent crime and a recall effort against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10746,5458,7204,4709,4602,9555,3967,4455,3819,8199,4395,10745],"class_list":["post-1782263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-appoints","tag-bongino","tag-crime","tag-effort","tag-mayor","tag-orleans","tag-police","tag-recall","tag-report","tag-superintendent","tag-surge","tag-temporary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}