Although the murder rate in New Orleans is lower than it was a decade ago, it's rising and is nearly 10 times the national average. A criminologist said the city's trend is the reverse of 46 of the top 50 cities in the United States. Experts said the trend in the city that's home to the popular French Quarter exists for several reasons -- drugs, too few police, inexperienced prosecutors, and residents staying quiet because they fear retaliation. They point to an experiment last year by university researchers in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon.
NEW ORLEANS -- Murder rates have fallen dramatically in many major U.S. cities -- but that's not happening in the Big Easy.
No one called police to report the gunfire.
via Madville.com
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