As New Orleans continues to grapple with a rising homicide and violent crime rates, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is calling on both police and residents to step up and fight back.
"It impacts us all: our families, even our pets for the most part," Cantrell said during a Wednesday news briefing. "My heart just really goes out to our community overall, to our families that are impacted by violent crime on both sides."
Mayor Cantrell said the uptick in crime in the new year and their impacts on the city should not, and will not, be tolerated. She called on the judicial system to swiftly and strictly deal with offenders.
"There seems to be this lack of consequences for the actions that we are seeing on the street not only from young people but from adults as well," Cantrell said.
Mayor Cantrell points to two ways City Hall can bring down the violent crime rate.
"It's going to take the wraparound services but also us being tough on crime and us begin able to withstand any pushback or blowback to being tough on crime," the mayor told reporters. "I know that the men and women of the New Orleans Police Department continue to just be out there and, of course, engaged and getting guns off the street and making solid arrests. They're doing everything possible."
Cantrell also called on community stakeholders to do what they can to help city leaders and the NOPD stop crime.
"We see how we started the year. We do not want this to progress at all," Cantrell said.
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