BATON ROUGE— The Baton Rouge Police Department said it is seeing fewer homicides so far in the capital city compared to this time last year.
There have been 43 homicides in Baton Rouge this year, compared to 53 homicides at the end of June of last year. The department said they’ve seen a 19% drop compared to the previous year around this time.
In 2023, there were 45 homicides in the Capital City. In 2022 there were 54 homicides, and in 2021 there were 60 homicides by the end of June…