The Chocolate City Ends 2022 with Pre-Katrina Levels of Murder and a 33% Clearance rate

Originally posted on Quora January 2, 2023

With 265 murders and about 280 homicides, which on a per capita basis is about 70 murders per 100,000 residents, 2022 New Orleans makes Guadalajara (or the entire country of Honduras) look serene. It should come as no surprise that a city in which the majority of the population is a certain demographic, the majority of the city council is a certain demographic, the majority of the police force and chief of police is a certain demographic, the mayor is a certain demographic and the DA is a certain demographic would eventually become a war zone again. It only took 15 years. And since the DA was acquitted of tax fraud his record 701 releases of career criminals will likely trend upward with the homicide rate and inversely with the downward trend in an already abysmal clearance rate for murder.

Sources: New Orleans Likely Leads Nation in Murders in 2022

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