NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The 2024 crime statistics from the New Orleans Police Division present simply how a lot crime went down final yr, and the way it’s trending to date this yr.

NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick is crediting her officers, their native, state and federal companions and strategic reforms for crime reductions.

The NOPD is reporting an almost 30% lower in total crime in 2024 in comparison with 2023.

“Extra particularly, murders and homicides, we did certainly finish the yr by way of thirty first of December with 35% lower in murders,” stated Kirkpatrick.

The NOPD can be reporting that total crime in 2024 is about 30% decrease than the yr 2019, a historic low level for town.

Nevertheless, there weren’t successes throughout the board.

“We did have an uptick in our third-degree rapes, that quantity went up considerably. It went as much as 43% on a 3 to 5-year common,” Kirkpatrick defined.

The division is now monitoring 2025 crime stats, particularly homicide.

“We’re down 16% in homicide. That does embody the 14 victims of the terrorist assault,” stated Kirkpatrick. “If that was despatched to its personal particular class, as I stated, we checked out our conventional pattern of how individuals are murdered within the metropolis by gun violence, we truly are down 72%.”

The information is being launched greater than a month after outsiders referred to as for Kirkpatrick’s resignation following the fear assault.

“I can management whether or not or not I select to resign, and I knew that that was not, in the long term, the most effective for this metropolis or for myself, even,” stated Kirkpatrick. “I really feel I knew what I used to be doing and nonetheless do,”

The Metropolitan Crime Fee is reporting that January 2025 had the fewest main violent and property crime incidents throughout any January since 2015.

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