Posted on 03/12/2007 3:37:00 AM PDT by Ellesu
A new study by a Tulane University professor puts New Orleans' murder rate as the highest in the country.
The study estimates the city's 2006 murder rate at 96 per every 100,000 people.
The new study, by demographer Mark VanLandingham, aims to fix the main flaw in previous per capita murder estimates for 2006: It takes into account the large change in New Orleans' population during the year, with far fewer people in the city at the beginning of 2006 than at the end. That change raises the murder rate substantially.
"It's part of this big policy debate: How bad is the murder rate?" VanLandingham said. "It was a question that could be answered. And I wanted to do it right, come up with a correct estimate."
The study also shows a steadily increasing murder rate since 2004. The murder rate for 2004 was 57 per every 100,000 people. In 2005, the year Katrina hit, the rate was 65 per every 100,000 people, according to VanLandingham's study.
According to his study, the 2006 murder rate was 68 percent higher than in 2004.
Riley has previously said migrant workers living and working in the city are not being counted in such estimates. He has cautioned that the city could get an "awful reputation" based on miscalculations in population.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
The good news is that New Orleans doesn't have as many people as they did before Katrina. Apparently they are determined to have even fewer in the future.
" The study estimates the city's 2006 murder rate at 96 per every 100,000 people. "
In other words , 1 out of 1000 ...Now that sounds higher doesn't it ? Or does it ?
read later bump
I'd say all the decent people took the opportunity of Katrina to move to a more wholesome city. All the dregs returned to the cesspool.
The murder rate at 96 per every 100,000 people is worse than Baghdad.
A lot of the drudge has moved here in south Mississippi, crime rate has jumped since the hurricane.
I'd say all the decent people took the opportunity of Katrina to move to a more wholesome city. All the dregs returned to the cesspool
Plus the mayor grabbed the honest citizen's guns and locked them up in the school buses.
Maybe congress should look at a "troop surge" there since more people are being killed there than in Iraq.
" The study estimates the city's 2006 murder rate at 96 per every 100,000 people. "
In other words , 1 out of 1000 ...Now that sounds higher doesn't it ? Or does it ?
Done, and done.
N.O. is a dead city. It should be bulldozed and levelled; if it's not, it'll remain essentially as a relic, a "museum city."
The high murder rate in New Orleans was not caused by Katrina. It was caused by decades of corruption in government at all levels.
the result is what we are seeing today: anarchy.
It should be bulldozed or abandoned in place but it won't. I don't even want to think about how many hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars will be thrown down that cesspool.
This is just more proof that the Democrats and the RHINOS really have to get to work on HR 1022, the new assault weapon ban. /s
"Or - if you live there 50 years, you have a 1 in 20 chance (5%) of being murdered there."
Great statement! Or - if you were born in NO and lived to the age of 72, one out of every 14 of your friends would be murdered! Wow, your lifetime chances of being murdered in NO are greater than your chances (as a smoker) of getting lung cancer. Maybe "murder" will soon be a disease and get Federal funding?
The majority of the murders are chocolate on chocolate violence and isn't it obvious - FEMA and George Bush are to blame!
http://landrieu.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/06/2007301B38.html
Mary Landrieu asking for more money.
Reflecting on a dramatic increase in violent crime in the New Orleans region since the start of the year, Sen. Landrieu announced that she would seek $50 million in the Supplemental Bill to fund a comprehensive response to the problem. The most immediate component of the request would be to fully fund a $6.32 million proposal by metro New Orleans business leaders and civic groups to meet urgent operational needs.
The funds would provide for hiring back 50 former New Orleans police officers to fill the void in officers on the street. Current total officer strength stands at only 1,250 -- well below the authorized number of 1,600. The plan also includes nearly $1 million to hire eight additional Orleans Parish prosecutors and $2 million to support the development of an information-sharing project between criminal justice agencies in the region. The goal is to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of system-wide criminal justice operations.
"This problem is so serious that the federal government must be fully engaged," Sen. Landrieu said. "We need to beef up the crime-fighting operations in the state by making sure the law enforcement community has the resources it needs to apprehend and prosecute the criminals on the streets."
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