POSTED POSTED. BURGLAR LEE, MURDER AND YOU NAME IT, WE IT WELL VIOLENT CRIME HAS IMPACTED MANY ACROSS NEW ORLEANS IN 2022, AS WE ENDED YEAR WITH 280 MURDERS. ONE OF THE BIGGEST TRENDS FOR THE VIOLENCE THIS PAST YEAR WAS THE RISE IN SHOOTINGS, A CRIME THAT IS ALREADY KEEPING PACE THIS YEAR. WDSU REPORTER KASEY SCHRAM JOINS US LIVE FROM CLIO STREET WHERE IT TOOK 4 HOURS INTO THE NEW YEAR BEFORE. THE AREA SAW ITS FIRST HOMICIDE. KATHY. THAT’S RIGHT. JENA SO FOUR SHOOTINGS, THEY’VE BEEN CLIMBING ALREADY. JUST LAST YEAR, WE HAD MORE THAN 800 PEOPLE WHO WERE EITHER SHOT OR BY GUNFIRE. AND SO FAR YEAR, WE’VE ALREADY HAD A FEW. THAT’S WHY NEIGHBORS ARE COMING TOGETHER, PLEADING FOR SOLUTIONS. WHEN I AM GOING TO BE HERE AT THE SHOW FROM EITHER THAT WAY OR OVER THERE FOR 2022, SHOTS HAVE ROCKED COMMUNITIES ACROSS NEW ORLEANS, LEAVING MANY HOPING A BETTER, LESS DEADLY 2023. WE JUST NEED TO BETTER AS A CITY. ANALYSTS SAY A OF THE SHOOTINGS FOR 2022 WERE IN LITTLEWOODS CENTRAL CITY IN THE SEVENTH WARD, WHICH COLLECTIVELY ACCOUNTED MORE THAN A QUARTER OF THE MURDERS IN THE CITY. I’VE BEEN HERE ALL MY LIFE IN THE SAME THING, GOING ON YEAR IN, YEAR OUT. AND I’M 52. SO YOU DO THE MATH. ROBERT OLIVER IN NEW ORLEANS EAST SUGGESTS THE CITY FIX LIGHTS CLEAN UP BLIGHT AND MORE PRESENCE FROM POLICE. YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO LIVE IT. YOU GOT TO COME SEE IT. YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING? COME SIT ON THE PORCH WITH THE SUN AND LOOKING AT THE DATA. A MAJORITY OF THOSE BEHIND THE GUNS FOR 2022 WERE YOUNGER THAN THE YEARS PAST. AND NEIGHBORS, THEY’RE SEEING IT FIRSTHAND. IT’S THE CHILDREN THAT’S MAJORITY OF THE CRIME. SO WHY DON’T WE PUT. A CURFEW ON THEM IF YOU CATCH THEM OUT HERE, THAT’S WHY SHARON JONES AND OTHER MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITIES WHO ARE BEING HIT HARD BY VIOLENCE ARE FOR EVERYONE IN THE CITY TO COME TOGETHER TO HELP COME TOGETHER AS HUMANS AND DO THE RIGHT THING, GET TOGETHER. AND WE NEED DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE CHILDREN. POVERTY IS REALLY THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT’S CAUSING A LOT OF THIS. AND THEN, YOU KNOW PEOPLE ARE JUST SO DIFFERENT NOW. SO, I MEAN, IF WE COME TOGETHER AS ADULTS AND START WORKING ON THESE HOUSEHOLDS, THEN MAYBE WE’LL SEE A DIFFERENCE. NOW, ACCORDING TO NOPD STATISTICS, LOOKING AT MURDERS HERE IN NEW ORLEANS, ABOUT ONE IN THREE MURDERS ARE ALREADY SOLVED YEAR AND THEY’RE HOPING TO WORK ON MORE. BUT THERE’S STILL A LOT TO BE DONE IN REPORTING HERE IN NEW ORLEANS. I’M KATHY SHERMAN, WDSU NEWS. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, KATHY, THANK YOU. CAR THEFT IS A CRIME THAT PLAGUES PEOPLE ACROSS THE CITY. LAST YEAR AND MORE THAN 4000 CARS WERE STOLEN IN THIS CITY LAST YEAR AND 2022, MORE THAN THAT, 4000 CARS ANTHOLOGIES SAID WERE STOLEN, 4011, TO
Leaders call New Orleans' violent 2022 'a horrific year'
For New Orleans, it was a violent 2022 with more than 280 murders.
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Updated: 6:12 AM CST Jan 4, 2023
For New Orleans, it was a violent 2022 with more than 280 murders."Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans murder rate is twice that," said data analyst Jeff Asher. “It's been a really tragic horrific year."Asher says with 2022 crime numbers, New Orleans is on track to have the highest murder rate in the nation.The city ended the year with a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000 residents. Homicides: 280 Shooting: 482 Carjacking: 279 Robbery: 541According to preliminary crime statistics compiled by the department for 2022, the NOPD responded to 4,379 incidents citywide classified as auto thefts. This is an increase of 1,124 incidents, or 35 percent, over what was reported for the year 2021.The last time the homicide rate was this high was right after Hurricane Katrina. Before the hurricane, it was the early 1990s.Asher said the trends are looking similar to the past.“More women, more domestic incidents, more shootings more kids, but also more adults,” Asher said. “I don't know if we have seen a dramatic change of profiles, just we're seeing more of it."According to the data, at least 887 people have been injured or killed by gunfire in New Orleans this year.Analysts say a majority of the shootings, and more than a quarter of the murders, happened in Central City, the Seventh Ward and Little Wood. Former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial was elected in 1994 when crime was at an all-time high with more than 400 murders. He says it took a lot of work and commitment to bring it down.“It's a comprehensive plan and it was rallying the spirit of this community behind a dramatic reform, reforms of the police department, dramatic reforms of the youth programs, dramatic reforms of our pursuit of jobs and economic development,” Morial said. The approach became a method for cities across the nation during the time but Morial says leaders need to find what works now.“Replicating it may not be necessarily the best approach because strategies have to fit the times,” Morial said. Morial said something that hasn’t changed over time, is the importance of focusing on community.“The key to it was rallying the people and for the people to believe that New Orleans could become a safer city and it did become a much safer,” Morial said. But in order to do that, Asher said we have to accept what the numbers are telling us and act."I think the best thing that we can do is acknowledge that it got really bad for the last 25 years or so and that we need to solve,” Asher said. “Solving it requires solution and not just assuming that we can wish the problem away.”
NEW ORLEANS — For New Orleans, it was a violent 2022 with more than 280 murders.
"Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans murder rate is twice that," said data analyst Jeff Asher. “It's been a really tragic horrific year."
Asher says with 2022 crime numbers, New Orleans is on track to have the highest murder rate in the nation.
The city ended the year with a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000 residents.
Homicides: 280
Shooting: 482
Carjacking: 279
Robbery: 541
According to preliminary crime statistics compiled by the department for 2022, the NOPD responded to 4,379 incidents citywide classified as auto thefts. This is an increase of 1,124 incidents, or 35 percent, over what was reported for the year 2021.
The last time the homicide rate was this high was right after Hurricane Katrina. Before the hurricane, it was the early 1990s.
Asher said the trends are looking similar to the past.
“More women, more domestic incidents, more shootings more kids, but also more adults,” Asher said. “I don't know if we have seen a dramatic change of profiles, just we're seeing more of it."
According to the data, at least 887 people have been injured or killed by gunfire in New Orleans this year.
Analysts say a majority of the shootings, and more than a quarter of the murders, happened in Central City, the Seventh Ward and Little Wood.
Former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial was elected in 1994 when crime was at an all-time high with more than 400 murders. He says it took a lot of work and commitment to bring it down.
“It's a comprehensive plan and it was rallying the spirit of this community behind a dramatic reform, reforms of the police department, dramatic reforms of the youth programs, dramatic reforms of our pursuit of jobs and economic development,” Morial said.
The approach became a method for cities across the nation during the time but Morial says leaders need to find what works now.
“Replicating it may not be necessarily the best approach because strategies have to fit the times,” Morial said.
Morial said something that hasn’t changed over time, is the importance of focusing on community.
“The key to it was rallying the people and for the people to believe that New Orleans could become a safer city and it did become a much safer,” Morial said.
But in order to do that, Asher said we have to accept what the numbers are telling us and act.
"I think the best thing that we can do is acknowledge that it got really bad for the last 25 years or so and that we need to solve,” Asher said. “Solving it requires solution and not just assuming that we can wish the problem away.”
