Hey, New Orleans has been recognized for our achievements! We are the murder capitol of the nation! (Hey, if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, right?) Well, snark aside, the data could very well be off:
Tulane study puts Orleans murder rate as highest in nation
By AP2007-03-12 8:21 AM CST
NEW ORLEANS – A new study by Tulane University demographer Mark VanLandingham puts New Orleans’ per capita murder rate at 96 per 100,000 people last year – the highest in the nation.
There have been various other estimates of the per-capita murder rate, based on various population estimates in the city after Hurricane Katrina. VanLandingham’s method takes into account the large change in New Orleans’ population over the course of the year. That method takes into account the far lower population of the city in the early months of the year. …
Police Superintendent Warren Riley has previously said migrant workers living and working in the city are not being counted in such estimates. He has estimated the number of people in the city as high as 275,000. He has cautioned that the city could get an “awful reputation” based on miscalculations in population.
Well, I guess we’ll have to find some other way to distinguish ourselves. Oh, well…
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