New Orleans violent crimes have dropped by 20%, says the police | News

Four months after one year that started with one of the deadliest nights in the history of the city, the law enforcement officers of New Orleans announced on Tuesday that the violent crime rates have dropped considerably compared to the first half of the last year, with the murders of 34%, even after the terrorist attack was killed on New Year's Day 14.

New Orleans is on the right track, just two years after an exploding murder rate, one of the most peaceful years that made the city one of the most fatal in the country. A total of 35 people were killed in New Orleans this year, including the victims of the Bourbon Street attack.

There were also significant declines in other types of violent crime, which have dropped by 20%. Non -fatal shootings have dropped by 28%, carjackings have dropped by 32%and armed robberies of robbery by 19%.

In most major cities across the country, serious crimes have dropped in the years since the climax of Covid pandemic. The NOPD superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick led the recent progress in New Orleans to a joint task force with federal law enforcement authorities, which began in August last August.

This group consists of a non -mentioned number of NOPD officers and applicants from the US Ministry of Homeland Protection and the office for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives. They arrested more than 100 people and confiscated 85 weapons.

They also confiscated more than 48 pounds of marijuana, almost two pounds of heroin and crack cocaine and about three and a half pounds of Ecstasy and Kristallmeth.

“We get the poison from our streets,” said Kirkpatrick. “We get the weapons from our streets. We get the people who injure themselves for a (law) against our streets.”

Just like many people arrested by the Task Force were associated with a violent crime, it is unclear. NOPD referred to a person arrested in March who was arrested in February for a “shooting incident”, although the department did not publish any details.

Jason Williams, district prosecutor of Orleans Parish, pointed out the large amounts of confiscated drugs and claimed that part of the work with the focus on large drug dealers begins.

The Task Force confiscated one and a half pound of meth; 601 gram of crack cocaine; 221 grams of heroin. For each of these drugs according to Louisiana law, at least 28 grams occur for at least 10 years.

“They take people out of the board who bring poison to the streets and take a living,” said Williams, adding that the free -gave rates of his office have also recorded a thrust since the start of the task force.

Officials said the Task Force confiscated 85 weapons, 17 of which were stolen, although it is unclear how many arrested people were associated with arms.

Five of five people who were charged were criminals who illegally own weapons.

A person among a group of 10 in Central City in March was searched for in February in connection with a “shooting incident”, said NOPD, although the department did not publish any details.

In March, NOPD arrested 10 people in Central City, who, according to the Department of Magnolia, “M3” band.

When asked how many other arrests were related to gang activity, Kirkpatrick said: “Not everything.”