Programs & Initiatives
See who is doing the work. Partner-led programs, neighborhood activations and prevention efforts happening alongside this office across New Orleans.
Public safety in New Orleans is not only what happens in a courtroom. Across the city, neighborhood organizations, faith communities, youth programs and city agencies are doing prevention work that this office supports and, in many cases, helped start.
This page is a record of that work: who is involved, where it is happening, what it has produced, and how to take part.
See who is doing the work
Partner-led programs this office supports, with who is involved, where, and how to take part.
Neighborhood-level violence interruption, outreach to victims within 72 hours of a qualifying incident, and reentry navigation across four New Orleans council districts.
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Organized youth sports at Hardin Park, grown out of the block-by-block assessment that N.O.D.I.C.E. staff walked with faith and community leaders.
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Residents, neighborhood leaders, NOPD's 1st District and this office meeting regularly to hold the ground gained on North Claiborne Avenue.
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Music education, tutoring and safe after-school space for New Orleans youth, in partnership with The Roots of Music.
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Working with merchants along Claiborne Avenue to address the physical conditions that attract crime: lighting, dumping, vacant lots and unsecured properties.
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Last 30 days, updated 2026-09-01. Demo values; a real monthly source is needed before publication.
N.O.D.I.C.E. in the field
Data-informed operations that cleared the ground for many of the partnerships above.
Operation Big Easy was a multi-jurisdictional weapons-and-narcotics enforcement effort that produced 41 indictments and more than 70 seized firearms in targeted New Orleans areas.
Read the account →A community-centered initiative focused on tackling and preventing crime in the physical locations most affected along the Claiborne Avenue corridor through coordinated city services, merchant outreach, and public safety presence.
Read the account →A community-centered prevention partnership investing in young people and neighborhood cultural institutions alongside The Roots of Music, providing music education, academic tutoring, and safe spaces for New Orleans youth.
Read the account →A crime-infested tire shop closed through coordinated action.
Read the account →Historical gun-violence and family-violence data led N.O.D.I.C.E. to focus on Hardin Park. Staff then went block by block alongside faith and community leaders to assess blight, drug activity, gun violence, youth access, and neighborhood priorities.
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