The New Orleans Civil Service Commission agreed Monday to order a study of police officer pay, at the request of officer groups that claim the lack of an across-the-board salary increase in seven years is crushing morale and sending officers packing.
The city objected to the request filed last month by the Police Association of New Orleans. The city argued PANO was linking the need for pay raises to the loss of off-duty, private police details with the launch of a new city office to coordinate them, under the demands of a federal consent decree governing broad NOPD reforms.