New Orleans has seen a recent spike in homicides, with the NOPD working at least 15 homicides over the last two weeks.
Is this a sign that violent crime is on the rise in New Orleans? One analyst says the jury is still out.
“Yes, we’ve seen a slight increase over the last few weeks, but that comes on the heels of a lower number of shootings,” Jeff Asher of JH Datalytics said. “We have seen, I think much more publicly, this horrific increase in murder over the last few weeks, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re seeing some sort of reversal of the decline that we’ve seen over the last two years. At least, it doesn’t mean that yet.”…