Crime and Violence in New Orleans

Corrections Process

CRMJ 220-01

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the most important problem the citizens of New Orleans are encountering. The increasing number of violent and property crimes has rendered New Orleans to be a place not safe to live. The paper describes the crime rate and index of New Orleans compared to the rest of the communities in America. It describes how the Orleans is and whether it the condition there is improving or worsening with the passage of time. The paper then addresses the role of New Orleans Police department regarding crime and violence prevailing in the place. In the end, the paper briefly tells what the citizens of New Orleans think about the NOPD.

Crime and Violence in New Orleans

Introduction

The residents of New Orleans were solicited in an open-ended question that what is the most prevalent serious trouble New Orleans are encountering today. Crime, being pointed out by 41 percent respondents, explicitly topped the listing of inhabitants' responses (Henry, 2010). This percentage is over three times higher than any other distinct problem and corresponds to a prominent level of agreement as a reply to an open-ended question in a study. Crime is, in that case, exclusive of any doubt, the number one of the troubles in front of the city according to its citizens (Henry, 2010).

Figure 1: Biggest problems facing New Orleans today. (Source: Henry, 2010).

This statistic was confirmed by the Wilson Perkins Allen opinion research conducted in 2011 in which adults in New Orleans pointed out crime as the major problem before their locality. According to the citizens of New Orleans crime problems in New Orleans are very much linked with drugs, affliction, and many other social dilemmas (WPA opinion research, 2011).

Crime and violence in New Orleans

The crime level in New Orleans is noticeably higher as compared to the nationwide average across all populations in America from the largest to the smallest. It has a rate of 47 crimes for every one thousand inhabitants; yet it is not amongst the populations with dreadfully high crime level (www.neighborhoodscout.com). In New Orleans, the probability of falling to be a prey of a violent or property crime is 1 in 21. On the basis of FBI crime statistics, New Orleans is not among the safe and sound areas in America. Corresponding to Louisiana, crime level of New Orleans is higher than 82 percent of the all the towns and cities of state of all masses (www.neighborhoodscout.com).

Crime is evidently not a recent and unforeseen setback in New Orleans. On the year centenary of influx of Katrina, Time magazine labeled crime as an ingredient of the way of life, the atmosphere, the shadowy wit of the place. Even in August, 2005, on the evening of the hurricane, New Orleans was on course to end the year as the most fatal city in America, yet again and the violence had turn out to be regularized (Henry, 2010).

For New Orleans, it is ascertained that the violent crime level is among the highest ...