Editing Gretna, Louisiana (section)

===Police===
The city has a police department that was established in 1913.<ref>{{cite web |last=Curry |first=Mary Grace |title=Gretna Police History |url=http://www.gretnapolice.com/department-information/history/ |website=Gretna Police Department |access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref>

In 2016, press reports indicated that local police made 6,566 adult arrests in 2013, a rate about fourteen times that of a typical city. Such arrests may have generated over $5 million in fines and other revenue for the city.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome to the arrest capital of the United States|date=22 June 2016|access-date=27 January 2017|first=Mark|last=Gimein|website=Fusion|url=http://fusion.net/story/256788/gretna-louisiana-arrest-capital-america/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Gretna is 'arrest capital' of the U.S., website says|url=http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/06/gretna_is_the_arrest_capital_o.html|access-date=26 June 2016|newspaper=The Times-Picayune|date=25 June 2016}}</ref>

In July 2019 it was reported that two officers of the Gretna Police were fired for threatening United States Representative [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Calder |first=Chad |title=Two Gretna officers fired: One posted Ocasio-Cortez 'needs a round,' 2nd hit 'like' button |url=https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_7c4edae6-acb8-11e9-80c4-2b2e15730e4f.html |date=July 22, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate]] |access-date=June 27, 2023}}</ref>

In 2024, Gretna was part of an investigation by [[ProPublica]] and [[WVUE-DT|WVUE-TV]] into fines and fees issued by municipalities in southeastern Louisiana, which found that Gretna had the highest number of violations per case as well as the highest average amount levied per case among the seven municipalities studied.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Zurik |first1=Lee |last2=Sunne |first2=Samantha |last3=Sauer |first3=Dannah |last4=Jacobs |first4=Joel |date=2024-04-26 |title=The Louisiana Town Where a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/gretna-louisiana-traffic-violations-charges-fines |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240426141827/https://www.propublica.org/article/gretna-louisiana-traffic-violations-charges-fines |archive-date=2024-04-26 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=[[ProPublica]] |language=en}}</ref>