Posted on 05/11/2017 6:45:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
NEW ORLEANS – In the first four months of 2017, there were 71 murders in New Orleans.
Jeff Asher, a New Orleans crime analyst, said he believes the current homicide rate trend started in summer of 2016 and has continued into 2017.
“Over the last 365 days, we’re looking at 205 murders, which if were a full year it would be the worst single calendar year post-Katrina other than 2007 when we had 207 murders,” Asher said.
That number sets New Orleans ahead of major cities like Chicago, where the murder rate is considerably below the Crescent City largely because shootings in Chicago tend to be less fatal.
“About 1 in 3 shootings in both New Orleans and Baltimore are fatal, whereas, in Chicago, it’s closer to 1 in 5,” Asher explained.
The pace of shootings has slowed down from where it was in the first two months of this year, Asher said, but it’s been relatively steady at a significantly higher level than it has been in the past six to seven years.
“Without some sort of slowdown in shootings, there’s no expectation that the number of murders is going to change,” Asher said.
For the last 10 years, Tamara Jackson has walked into her office at Silence is Violence and sat down with the families of victims of homicide.
“Every day they have to deal with excepting the loss of that person who is no longer coming back and that’s the people we focus on,” said Jackson.
Focusing on those people and their loss has given her insight into the rising homicide rate in New Orleans.
“We have an increase in females becoming victims of homicides, and older females,” said Jackson.
Jackson said the reasons why the homicide rate is hard to pinpoint.
“It’s not just the community. It’s not just the government infrastructure. It’s not just the individuals that are actually involved and victims’ families," Jackson said. "It’s a whole bunch of stuff that we’ll probably never understand,” said Jackson.
What resulted?
Officers staying in their cars and waiting to go sort things out after the bullets have stopped flying.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Mayor is distracting his voters by taking down 'racist' Confederate statutes.
Article on the useless Democrat mayor:
This is the Mayor’s alleged ‘side piece’ according to social media folks:
http://downtownnola.com/our-team/devona-dolliole/
Southerners are better shooters...................
Copy of the DOJ ‘consent decree’ (consent or else...):
http://www.nola.gov/nopd/nopd-consent-decree/
Interesting lib media never connects the dots between these consent decrees and the homicide rate skyrocketing.
Article on the ‘consent decrees’:
Thanks for the post.
I think the takeaway for me is that they are more accurate shooters in the Big Easy.
NYC had 81 murders over the same 4 months. New Orleans population: 384,000. NYC: 8.4 million.
List of the cities for anyone that wants to research this for an article.
New Orleans and Chicago are two of them and it’s destroyed policing in those cities.
I’d also suggest the book WAR ON COPS for more info on the Ferguson Effect.
But when police interviewed the suspects, they suddenly understood why New Orleans was so violent. No matter what police said, they couldn’t get the suspects to talk. They had no leverage because no one took their threats seriously. It was a logical response: in New Orleans, 93% of people arrested from 2003 to 2004 never went to prison. “It was a real eye-opening experience,” says Sergeant Harris. “People born and raised in Houston seem to have an understanding of consequences, of punishment. You can show them the options, and they start thinking, Wow, maybe I should start cooperating.” With New Orleans evacuees, Sergeant Harris says, “there is no baseline. They have no concept of consequence.”
It was the first time the Houston police had heard the phrase “60-day homicide.” Suspects would say, “This ain’t nothing but a 60-day homicide,” meaning that if they kept quiet for 60 days, they would walk—just as they had too often in New Orleans. So Houston police started letting evacuees spend a few days in jail before questioning them in depth. While they waited, the suspects talked with other inmates and had court appearances—which did not end with release. Eventually, for some, the reality of Texas law began to sink in. “As they stay here more, they seem to talk more,” Sergeant Harris says.
http://www.metafilter.com/94239/The-Big-Easy-To-Get-Away-With-Murder
Had to smile at that line...
It is a shame what NOLA has turned into.
NOLA was in the years previous to the Louisiana Purchase, and for several years thereafter, a lawless haven for pirates, smugglers, slavers, bordellos, gamblers and con-men.
It’s just gone back to its roots...........
Blame the humidity!
A confederate statue is worse than a murder in a liberal’s eyes. Twisted people.
Has Chicago gone back to it’s roots ? New York, all the big cities, or many of them.
New Orleans is/was a ‘sanctuary city’ for mohammedans and hispanics.
Prohibition Era Chicago and Mafia controlled New York?................
Now New Orleans is one of the cities I avoid.
He only has taken down two so far and has two to go. As soon as Robert E Lee and PGT Beauragard or down the crime rate will surely fall. I had to go to NOLA last year for a reunion and got out of town the next day early in the morning. That's the safest time to drive downtown. I used to think the only thing worth visiting NOLA for was the food. There is no food good enough to risk dying for.
Yep. BTW, the second monument in New Orleans was taken down before dawn this morning. Odd, isn't it... Democrats removing memorials to - Democrats.
Now Mitch Landrieu has something to brag about over Rahm Emmanuel.
I’m sure this high murder rate has nothing to do with the racial composition of New Orleans. None.
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