It is hard to draw conclusions after less than two weeks, but things look grim when it comes to violent crime in New Orleans.
While it is early in 2023, the new year crime surge has New Orleans on pace for record levels of violent crime.
When you combine the fatal and nonfatal shooting numbers, you find 40 people were shot in the city between January first and January eighth.
That's an average of five people shot every day.
Of the 40 people shot, 13 have died.
The highest murder total in the city's recorded history was 424 in 1994. If the current pace continues, New Orleans would see closed to 600 homicides this year.
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The Metro Crime Commission says of the eight homicide incidents, there have been two triple homicides and one double homicide.
