It took eleven days, but New Orleans finally went an entire day without any reported shootings in the city in 2023.
NOPD reports show that from just after 4:00pm on Tuesday, January 10th, until at least 7:00am on Thursday, January 12th, there were no reports of anyone being shot.
That makes January 11th, 2023 the first day of the year without any reported shootings.
In the first ten days of the year, at least one person was shot every day.
Metro Crime Commission stats show that 40 people were shot in the first eight days of the new year alone. That's an average of five per day. Thirteen of the people shot died.
The MCC says that represents an 86% increase in homicides over the same period in 2022 and a 333% jump compared to the first eight days of 2019. Shootings are up 36% year over year and 280% higher than in 2019.
