New Orleans Again Nation's Murder Capital

[larrymeyer]

http://www.officer.com/online/articl...ion=1&id=46957

New Orleans Again Nation's Murder Capital


Posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Updated: June 3rd, 2009 10:26 AM EDT


NEW ORLEANS --

A newspaper analysis of fresh FBI statistics finds that New Orleans is once again the nation's murder capital.

The Times-Picayune determined that with 64 killings per 100,000 people in 2008, New Orleans had the highest per capita murder rate in the nation, well ahead of second-place St. Louis, which had 47 murders per 100,000 people.

Baton Rouge, which gained population after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, came in No. 7 with 30 murders per 100,000.

The per capita estimate is based on the FBI putting New Orleans' population at 281,440 as of July 1, 2008. The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center put the city's population for the first half of 2008 at 324,357. But even using the higher estimate, the city recorded 55 murders per 100,000 people.

[1861]

Even a major hurricane can't clean that cesspool out .

[fingers80002]

Wait, they confiscated all the guns, that can't be true.

[camper]

The bad news is that this is where the anti's will focus their "See? Letting people have guns doesn't work!" scopes onto.

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