NOLA Murder Rate Leads the Nation...Again

[PaintTheWorld]

They say there's something to that, as reflected in crime rates in hot parts of the country (and the world), like how Miami has more violent crime than Minneapolis... When's the last crime wave Norway had? But, that doesn't account for the millions of law-abiding citizens that live in the same climate. Why don't they flip out when it gets hot? It's very interesting, and I've always sort of thought the same thing as you.

[1Me]

Department of International Health and Development Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2200 New Orleans, LA 70112 ph. 504-988-3655 | fax 504-988-3653 [url]www.sph.tulane.edu/~inhl[/url] MurderMurder rates in New Orleans, 2000-2008 Mark J. VanLandingham, Ph.D. Peter Scharf, Ed.D. Version: January 1, 2009
Most criminologists emphasize social structural factors. High poverty, poor education, easy availability of drugs and guns, fatherless households, and high unemployment all conspire to concentrate violent crime into the neighborhoods least equipped to combat it. While aging population structure has served to lower crime rates nationally, this “demographic dividend” with respect to violent crime has unfortunately not eased homicide rates in New Orleans.

-Thought it would help shed light on the topic

[MetroBTR]

If the poor people who aren't criminal would just stand together, they could take their neighborhoods back. When something goes down in those neighborhoods, people have learned to just look the other way, and for their own safety. We need better protection for witnesses of violent crime, so that actually stepping up and squaking on the bad guys doesn't seem so scary. I guarantee you, every murder that occurs in New Orleans, somebody knows who done it. But if they say anything, they're likely to end up sleeping with the fishes.

[knoxgarden]

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