re: New Orleans Murder Rate Up 70%

For the most part that's true, but you absolutely can arrest and prosecute your way to a substantial reduction in homicides. The multi-agency gang task force was solely responsible for the reductions in 12-14 by targeting the relatively small number who were committing several homicides each.

Then the effect of Mitch's (and make no mistake, he is solely responsible) NOPD hiring freeze kicked in, and there's no one left. This email is the most telling thing ever, and has been Landrieu and Kopplin's strategy all along: We have more X per capita than the rest of the country, so we'll just reduce X, not address the underlying reasons for X or consider whether we need X to remain where it is.

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I'd be willing to bet new orleans pours more money and resources into it's police and judicial system than a city like London.

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I'd be willing to bet that you're wrong...if for no other reason, London's economy and political leadership is far above that of New Orleans.

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It's not because of money and resources, it's because the citizens of London are civilized.

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Someone's never attended British soccer matches.

Good post. It blew my mind once when an officer told me that imaginary lines dictated if they could respond to a call or not. This was about three years ago when I was involved in a hit and run with a cultured Central City youth.

If his district ended Carrollton/Canal (example) then he couldn't respond to a call at Canal and Broad. Figured it was all guns on deck in Nola.

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Spot on. Conservatives are all "small government" until a Democrat is in office, then they expect him to solve every problem.

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The domecrats want to tax small business even more. That drives out good honest working people and you are left with the majority of your population as degenerate lazy fricks. That's exactly what happens. People of this state are going to get fed up and leave.

In case no one read the link to the story on N.O. homicides, what is more telling than the murder rate increasing by 70% is that the closure percentage, cases solved, is 22%. Do the math. Landrieu is the captain of the ship & it's his priorities that are being emphasized through out the city. Obviously reducing the rate of citizens being killed & increasing the successful prosecution of the killers is not at the top of his list.

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Obviously reducing the rate of citizens being killed & increasing the successful prosecution of the killers is not at the top of his list.

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i think somewhere in there they figured going after guns and gangs would impact the homicide rate too.... but despite TIGER and some other major units looking like they are having success... well... fatal shootings are still up even if things like armed robbery are down

it just doesnt seem like theres a cohesive strategy or any synergy between districts and various segments of the chain that makes up justice (police to DA to jail to..)

The problem with even the Murder Rate is that it is not truly an accurate number. They only count it as a murder if the person is dead on the ground or they die within 1 day of being transported to a hospital. After 1 day in the hospital the NOPD declares the death as a medical death or whatever the fancy term it is that they use. The OP Sheriff's office does the same thing--you have an inmate who has been stabbed 50 times--transport him over as quick as possible to the LSUMC and let him die there so it isn't reported as a murder in the jail.

The only time the NOPD accurately reports a death where someone died in a hospital days later is when the family starts raising a stink that the death was due to being shot not a hospital malpractice issue. Only 16 of the 175 victims were transported to a hospital. Sorry but that % doesn't jive at all.

Find someone shot in the back of the head on the side of the road or burned up in a car so you classify the death as a suicide or undetermined death.

The truth of the matter is that the NOLA homocide rate is probably 2x what the reported statistics show.

NOLA's New Orleans Murder Map 2016 (still not accurate)

We had another murder this morning in New Orleans East btw so the number rises.

both offices pretty much pay LSU lip service, even thought they're far more likely to get long term workers here than outside places.

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just lol at living in New Orleans

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I know right?

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or anywhere in Louisiana

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1 out of 2 ain't bad but kinda average.