nola.com presents NOPD’s comparison of crime statistics between 4th Quarter 2004 and 2005. Violent crime is down 89% while non-violent crime is down 64%. However, in the latter department, general theft and auto theft have reduced drastically while burglary is down only by 24% (1214 in ’04 to 920 in ’05).
With a severely diminished population, what we really need is a comparison of crime stats between Q4 2005 and the present. Wouldn’t that be a more reliable gauge of the current evolution of crime?
Courtesy Times Picayune
To quote one of the smarter things that emanated from G. Gordon Liddy’s mouth, “Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime. Burglary is the only resort for the new New Orleans criminal.
Also, all violent crime categories have taken a big hit except for rape, which is down only by 62%. Conveniently ignoring this statistic, the police proclaim that “all violent crimes, including murders, rapes, aggravated assaults, and armed and simple robberies, were also down — 89 percent — from a total of 1,085 during the fourth quarter in 2004 to 115 during the same time in 2005.”
Have rug, will sweep under. Then again, if I didn’t need this before the storm, I may have no use for it now.
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Amusing and related rant of the day from the nola.com forums: “No $ for courts, thugs in jail and SOME innocent people, I sure hope the NEW folks in silly hall give serious thought to fining heavily anyone littering, solve 2 problems at once, fund the non working criminal system and make a FORTUNE stopping slobs who continue littering a city that is already overflowing with trash.” Amen.
Are these states citywide, or just among the police force?
(Ooh, rimshot!)
Ok, that was lame.
Especially since I mistyped stats. Now it’s really lame.
Yes, all your states are belong to us.
Hey, person with close proximity to Detroit, some of my friends here are cops.
No doubt Detroit can teach the world a thing or two about municipal corruption.