The violence just keeps getting worse in New Orleans, and the new year is seeing that trend continue.
Five people were shot last night in just one incident on S. Rochblave in New Orleans. Another shooting on Broad Street sent a victim to the hospital. Gunfire around 3:00 this morning on the I-10 Service Road in New Orleans East wounded another person. Then just after four o' clock this morning there was a shooting on Tchoupitoulas Street at the Expressway that sent a victim to the hospital.
Former Jefferson Parish Sheriff, now WWL Radio Host, Newell Normand has been tracking the number of shootings over the past three years in New Orleans.
If you add up fatal and nonfatal shooting incidents, there were 364 in 2019.
Normand says that has almost doubled since then.
"You see the rise in 2020 it jumped to 593. [There were] 665 in 2021. Here we find ourselves at 704 [for 2022]."
He notes that the stats from the Metro Crime Commission show that shootings and murders keep rising as the NOPD size keeps shrinking.
MCC President Raphael Goyeneche says in 2019 NOPD was about 1,300 officers strong. Now there are barley 900 on the force.
There have already been at least 12 shooting incidents (fatal and nonfatal) in the first four days of the new year. While it is early, that would put the city on a pace to have more than 1,000 shooting incidents in 2023.
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