NOPD reports murders down; clearances up, in 2008
NOPD reports murder rate down from 2007
09:37 PM CDT on Friday, April 18, 2008
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police are winning the battle against violent crime, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Friday.
Though the number of murders in the first three months of 2008 were only slightly down, arrests were way up Riley said. And he said his officers are taking other violent offenders, weapons and drugs off the street at record rates. …
There were 54 murders in the first quarter of this year, compared to 59 last year, Riley said. Of those, 60 percent have been solved and 30 people arrested. The national average for clearing homicide cases is 55 percent, Riley said. Of the remaining open 2008 cases, nearly 90 percent have possible suspects and are close to being solved, he said.
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