New Orleans (MJP) —
There has been a marked decrease in crime, according to the New Orleans Police Department. The city’s total crime rate has decreased by 24%, according to the department’s crime figures.
According to NOPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, the homicide rate has dropped the greatest and is being solved at a higher rate.
The crime-solving efficiency of New Orleans in the 1920s was somewhere in the low to mid-twenties. The solution rate is 65% today, according to Kirkpatrick.
As New Orleans braces for potentially deadly heat waves, cooling shelters open.
The decline, according to Mayor Latoya Cantrell, didn’t happen suddenly; she started doing roll calls with police in 2022 to figure out how the city could be of assistance.
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“The city of New Orleans got federal resources after a very vigorous and hard fight,” Cantrell remarked.
Colonel Robert Hodges of the Louisiana State Police stressed that Troop NOLA is here to stay, and the NOPD wants to acknowledge that.
The arrest of lawbreakers by Troop NOLA and the New Orleans Police Department is a positive development for the city, according to Hodges, who added that it serves as a warning to both locals and tourists.
Even while Kirkpatrick is pleased with the decrease in crime, he stresses that there is still plenty to be done.
That the loss of life caused by a violent crime is unacceptable. Every one of those numbers represents a real person and their loved ones. Kirkpatrick made it clear that he would never want anyone to forget that someone is grieving.
More individuals will be interested in joining the police force as a result of the decline in violent crime, according to city officials.
