While the much of the focus for the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination Project will remain on the crime-plagued 70805 ZIP code in Baton Rouge, city-parish officials say they plan to begin ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Congressmen Garret Graves and Cedric Richmond have called on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to extend the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination (BRAVE) program. The program ...

Jackson and Hinds County leaders fed up with crime have implemented a new program that has already proven successful in other areas of the country in reducing violent crime. The BRAVE program, which ...

A Baton Rouge Metro Council member and the former president of the city's police union on Monday asked two state agencies to investigate contracts issued for the BRAVE program by Mayor-President ...

East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore on Wednesday said that the BRAVE contracts recently suspended by Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome did not go through the program's core ...

Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said Wednesday she is "completely committed" to the future success of the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination program after her office asked for more time to ...