07.02.12
Article reported that there were 51 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2010. At the appointment of publication, there were a total of 203 reported homicide victims – much more than the 175 homicides reported in 2010.
According to NYTimes.com, the 2010 homicide rank was 10 times the national average. For comparison, less than 7 homicides per 100,000 residents occurred in New York in the same habits period.
“We’re a small city, but we have big city situations,” New Orleans The Old Bill Officer Frank Robertson said.
Robertson advised fans and visitors to implement the same normal sense safety measures they would use in any other big city.
“In any major city, predominantly when you don’t know the city you are visiting, you’re going in with a certain awareness bulldoze,” Robertson said. “You have certain plans – travel in pairs, don’t hazardous undertaking off from the group, don’t venture off from the city.”
Robertson said he believed most tourists would hunger to stay around the French Quarter, and he warned against traveling deeper into the diocese.
Source: The University of Alabama Crimson White