Posted on 02/02/2017 3:32:05 PM PST by BBell
Seventy-five people were killed or wounded by gunfire in New Orleans in the first month of the year - more than twice the total in January 2016, according to a Times-Picayune tally of police reports. The staggering total this month, more than two a day, comes on the heels of a violent 2016 that saw increases in murders and nonfatal shootings.
The total includes victims of a double shooting Tuesday night (Jan. 31) that New Orleans police said left two people dead outside Edna Karr High School in Algiers. It also includes a woman killed and another woman injured in a second double shooting Tuesday night, this one in New Orleans East.
Tuesday's killings raised January's murder tally to 22, the highest since January 2012, when 25 people were killed. All but three homicides this year have been confirmed as caused by gunshots.
While too early to draw conclusions on the rest of the year, criminologists say New Orleans' rising gun violence is evidence of a troubling trend playing out in cities across the country. Baltimore, for example, had 25 killings in the first 26 days of the year, according to The Baltimore Sun.
"The national trend doesn't look good," said Jay Corzine, a sociology professor at the University of Central Florida. "It's pointing to, in large urban areas, more violence and more lethal violence. Right now, nobody has a good handle on it."
NOPD Deputy Chief Paul Noel said any level of violence is concerning. But, he added, the department's continued partnership with state and federal law enforcement agencies and the institution of a city-wide public safety plan announced by Mayor Mitch Landrieu earlier this month should bring down violence in New Orleans.
Two pieces of the Landrieu administration's plan, crime cameras in hotspots and license plate readers,
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
BTW, I live just across the twin spans form New Orleans and we had an overall 16% drop in crime in 2016. Lots of proactive policing here and lots of police.
I guess New Orleans figures that Chicago can’t have all the glory now, can they?
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I lived in Slidell and it was much safer place to live than NO. Previously I had lived in the newer section of Algiers called Aurora for many years. Its a shame how crime has increased - particularly gun violence - since Katrina. I wish they could get it under control.
Those folks in Chicago are not very good shooters. 22 killed and 53 wounded in New Orleans.
Katrina changed a lot of things. Slidell is still pretty safe but it’s not the same as it was prior to Katrina.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cop in my lily white neighborhood. Haven’t seen any crime either in 15 years.
Is it still “St. Tammanard” over there north of the lake, or did the Chalmetians and Violetions migrate back home?
At least you are not a “lily white lib”. Those are those fools who live in “lily white land” and think they can solve all the problems that go on in the inner cities. Seattle is the largest lily white city in the country and it is full of lily white libs.
I’m in conservative central CA. I’d be surprised if most of my neighbors weren’t gun toting right wingers like me.
Those Pikers in Chicago better get back on their game. Getting beaten in raw numbers by a city only a fraction of their size.
Chicago - Second City and dropping in the murder race. Or is that Race Murders?
Actually it’s known as St. Slammany because of the hangin judges. Violetions I’m not so sure about but we still have our share of Chalmetians but the ones i now are decent hard working people from the “Parish”.
In Louisiana your vehicle is an extension of your house. Therefore you can carry a loaded weapon anywhere in your vehicle and a good number of people I know do.
The DOJ ‘consent decree’ (consent = we will use power of fed gov’t to force you into submission) is to blame.
Cops have to wear multiple cameras.
Cops are required to ‘rat out’ fellow cops.
Basically, a ‘stand down’ order from on top. Don’t do anything you don’t have to.
And TOTAL CHAOS results ... as in Chicago.
Cops are basically letting planet of the apes sort itself out in the streets and showing up to write up reports after the dead bodies stack up.
“large urban areas”
Hmmmmmmm.
Good idea anywhere, but especially in your area. I’d love to retire to your area.
This story makes me think of David Kopel’s book “The Samurai, The Mountie, and The Cowboy”. It of course is a fascinating study of looking at the firearms laws and ownership cultures of Canada, the U.K., Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Australia and comparing and contrasting them with such aspects of the United States.
The tragic events in Quebec City this week (as Quebec has its own firearms registry and other very strict laws provincially) had me also thinking about the above book (been in my personal library for a number of years). One thing to consider is that the American states that immediately border that province (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont) have among themselves both the most casual or permissive state firearms laws in the entire United States and among the lowest state homicide rates (Vermont, along with Switzerland, being one of the least violent regions in the Western world).
Would a good, thought-provoking book similar to Kopel’s be able to be written nowadays that could compare and contrast distinct regions of the United States in terms of their firearms laws history and culture? One could look at the northern New England area (VT, MI, NH), Atlantic (NY, NJ, RI, MA, CT, MD, DE), Pacific (CA, WA, OR, HI, and Alaska), perhaps an entire chapter dedicated to Texas, the Old South (GA, AL, FL, TN, MO, AR, Louisiana, and the Carolinas), the Older West (OH, PA, MI, MN, IL, KY, IA) and the Newer West (ID, MT, the Dakotas, AZ, CO, KS, NB, UT, Oklahoma, and Nevada). I would like to hear other’s views on this as this sort of thing intrigues me (I’ve mentioned this on an earlier thread about gun control laws in Washington State).
Obama’s fault.
I hope you like long humid summers.
SPOT ON!!!
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