New Orleans is on pace for a significant reduction in violent crime in 2025, police department statistics show.
Why it matters: The city led the nation in murders just three years ago.
By the numbers: The NOPD has so far seen an overall, year-over-year decrease in violent crime by 20%, department data shows.
- That’s driven by a decrease in nearly every category of violent crime including car theft (-48.6%), carjackings (-33%), unarmed (-28.8%) and armed (-13.9%) robberies and rape or sexual assaults (-3.9%).
- Murder is down by 34% so far this year — a striking statistic on its own, and that includes the terror attack that killed 14 people. Without that anomaly, the figure would amount to a 60% drop.
What they’re saying: The data shows “what is possible when you actually work strategies and when you are focused or precision-based,” NOPD chief Anne Kirkpatrick said last week in a press conference celebrating the improvements…