Days after the New Orleans Police Department announced that violent crime had fallen for a third straight year, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams joined about a dozen criminal justice leaders to frame the moment as an “inflection point” marked by a shift from crisis response to long-term public safety planning.
“We have seen cycles of violence in this community like hurricane seasons,” Williams said. “We do not have to go back. We do not have to have another crime spike.”
He credited a “historic” level of collaboration between his office, the NOPD, federal law enforcement partners, courts and judges, community groups, violence interrupters and business organizations for the sustained reduction in crime…