NOPD Superintendent Anne E. Kirkpatrick recently discussed ongoing reductions in violent crime in New Orleans through the first quarter of 2025.

During a press conference on May 6, Kirkpatrick addressed the department’s continued efforts to fight crime in the city, citing data compiled by the department’s Analytics Unit that show a continued significant decrease in both overall violent crime as well as in respective subcategories.

“These figures don’t just represent a decrease in crime in our city because of our crime prevention strategies, but it also shows a decrease in victims,” Kirkpatrick said.

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Year to date in 2025, the NOPD has seen a 20-percent overall decrease in violent crime incidents reported as compared to the same time in 2024. This includes murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, aggravated rape, simple rape, armed robbery and simple robbery incidents reported to police.

In terms of murders, the department has seen a 34-percent decrease year to date in 2025. This number includes the 14 victims of the January 1 terrorist attack on Bourbon Street. Excluding this number, the department has seen a 61-percent decrease in murders with 21 murders compared to 53 murders at this time in 2024.

Fatal shooting incidents have decreased by 28 percent year to date in 2025, with 18 incidents to date compared to 46 such incidents during the same period in 2024. Meanwhile, nonfatal shooting incidents have decreased by 27 percent, with 62 incidents year to date in 2025 compared to 85 such incidents to date in 2024.

Kirkpatrick also spoke on the department’s solve rate for homicides, which stands at about 91 percent.

“That means there’s a 9-out-of-10 chance that whoever does take people’s lives, you’re going to be arrested,” she said.

One factor that has worked toward this goal is the ongoing efforts of working with partner law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. This includes an ongoing multi-agency operation combining local and Federal law enforcement personnel. The Joint Tactical Intelligence Group has seen NOPD working closely with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to target illegal narcotics activity and violent crime in the city, yielding more than 100 arrested individuals and clearing nearly 200 warrants since its beginnings in August 2024. The work also led to the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office seizing a business where illegal narcotics and violent crime operations had been centered.

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Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams lauded the department’s efforts, including that of the Joint Tactical Intelligence Group, citing them as having a significant positive impact on his office’s work to provide strong cases in court and secure convictions.

“People are lauding these results locally and nationally,” Williams said. “It’s not serendipity. This didn’t happen by accident. This work product is better than it’s ever been. This is a result of (officers) putting themselves in harm’s way to make this community safer. That (homicide) solve rate is not something you hear a lot of departments talk about, because they don’t have it. That’s a game changer.”

Kirkpatrick reminded the public that there are curative options for those who find themselves involved in criminal activity that wish to find a way out.

“We actually can help you if you just give us a call,” she said. “We can get you resources to help break that cycle. We are interest in the holistic public health approach to reducing violence in our community.”

Have a question or correction? Please email NOPD’s Public Affairs Division at nopdpio@nola.gov.