Tuesday, January 02, 2007
• N.O. murders hit 161 for year
Three New Year's Eve killings brought the city's murder total to 161 for 2006, a figure New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley touted Monday as the lowest total in 30 years.
I am perplexed by the chief's statement. Is he insane? In the first half of 2006 the city had very few of its hard criminals back from their Katrina induced exodus and murder was almost non-existent. The great majority of these 161 murders happened in just one half of one year. Also the population is half of its Pre-K count. So from a per-capita perspective combined with the fact that most of the murders happened in the second half of the year makes this not a year to be talking about lowest murder counts in 30 years but rather to be admitting just the opposite, violent crime is at almost unprecendented record pace.
Maybe it will get better, maybe so. Here's today's news--New Orleans logs 5 murders in 14 hours...Update---Six New Orleanians killed in less than a day, 12 slain during the last week (1/4/07)
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• N.O. murders hit 161 for year
Three New Year's Eve killings brought the city's murder total to 161 for 2006, a figure New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley touted Monday as the lowest total in 30 years.
I am perplexed by the chief's statement. Is he insane? In the first half of 2006 the city had very few of its hard criminals back from their Katrina induced exodus and murder was almost non-existent. The great majority of these 161 murders happened in just one half of one year. Also the population is half of its Pre-K count. So from a per-capita perspective combined with the fact that most of the murders happened in the second half of the year makes this not a year to be talking about lowest murder counts in 30 years but rather to be admitting just the opposite, violent crime is at almost unprecendented record pace.
Maybe it will get better, maybe so. Here's today's news--New Orleans logs 5 murders in 14 hours...Update---Six New Orleanians killed in less than a day, 12 slain during the last week (1/4/07)
- jimlouis 1-04-2007 8:45 pm