Crime Report and A Birthday Party
An "unusually violent" week in New Orleans
Before reporting the crime statistics, keep this fact in mind: 1 in 14 young black men in New Orleans will not see their 35th birthday. The scourge of violence inflicted upon black people seems never ending, probably because the punishment is self-administered, sadly. Enabled by local Democrats, black lives don’t matter to black people. We see both evidence and proof of this week after bloody week.
And indeed, lives generally don’t matter to black criminals.
(We often see the “13% of…” number, but most violent crime is committed by about 4-5%, not 13%.)
Here in New Orleans, it was just a brutal week:
As of November 12, 2023:
Homicide Victims: 200
Seven homicides last week brings our YTD total to 200.
Homicide in 2023 is 17% lower than the same time in 2022.
The homicide total includes ten victims of vehicular homicide, five negligent, and approximately six which may ultimately be deemed as justified by the DA’s office. These will not be counted as “murders” by NOPD.
Nonfatal Shooting Incidents: 328
There have been approximately 438 victims of nonfatal gunshot incidents in 2023, though this number is subject to change as investigations progress.
At the same time in 2022, there had been 411 shooting incidents and approximately 548 nonfatal shooting victims (an overall reduction of 20% in fatal/nonfatal shooting victims and a reduction of 22% in fatal nonfatal shooting incidents).
Carjacking Incidents: 130
With no incidents last week, carjacking is down 47% relative to 2022 – still the biggest decline we are seeing in any major violent crime category since 2022.
Continues to coincide with a substantial (80%) increase in auto theft (as of September 17, 2022, 2,561 auto thefts vs. 5,291 in 2023).
Armed Robbery Incidents: 322
Armed robbery is 33% lower than this time in 2022 and 11% lower than the same time in 2019.
This is the only category of major violent crime showing reductions compared with the past 4 years.
In 2022, there were 3,513 reported auto thefts as of November 12th.
There have been at least 6,329 reported auto thefts to date in 2023, an increase of 80% since 2022.
This is an average of 20 stolen cars per day, though we have slowly improved since earlier in the year, when the city was averaging 25 stolen cars per day.
We are grateful to the Metropolitan Crime Commission for maintaining and disseminating these statistics.
BEC readers will remember these haunting images:
Reasonable people would wonder, “How can this happen?”
Well, the Twittersphere is abuzz with images and video of a recent Louisiana birthday party thrown for two very young boys, where, with adults cheering them on, the boys played with guns and fake cash, dancing along to the beats of rap music…
Yes, that toddler is handling a gun, a real gun, as would the boy to his left, all in a party atmosphere!
So it will be only a matter of some short years until those two boys are interchangeably these boys:
And the 1 in 14 statistic is not so mysterious, is it?
I will always maintain my assertion that Stop & Frisk tactics are needed in New Orleans, and that if black people were truly serious about making real progress in the battle against murder they would demand police impose Stop & Frisk in crime hotspots in the city.
Instead, “progressive” politicians - black and white - say words and finger-point while child after child is gunned down on our streets and adult after adult allows their kids to play with Glocks at toddlers’ birthday parties.
