Wanted to give a status update on this fiasco.
I did some more research on lawyers, and ended up hiring a cheaper attorney out of Baton Rouge. He was able to have the failure to comply ticket dropped and the one-way violations down to a non-moving "wrong address on drivers license" (that is true, I just moved to a different unit in my complex and didn't have the apartment number updated). In the end, I paid $890 to get the tickets taken care of including attorney fees.
Honestly, a steal. If I needed to defend them myself, I would have to appear in court in Alexandria. Just for the arraignment, I would have to pay $600 flight, ~$100 in hotel, ~$40 in rental car, days off work, and I probably wouldn't be able to negotiate anything near what my attorney was able to do.. So in the end, I'm OK with how the citations were taken care of.
I'm still filing a police complaint, which is going to be the 'satisfaction' bit of this whole thing. Once I received receipt by mail that all the citations are closed, I'll continue on with that as advised of my attorney. I'm going to handle the complaint myself. If the outcome of the complaint isn't... satisfactory, I'll pursue the legal route.