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by beerandt 637 days ago
Anyone doubting this needs to go lookup how many murders New Orleans reported to the fbi for the year 2023, published today: 0.

Hint: they had more than 0 murders in 2023.

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I looked this up because it sounded implausible. I used the FBI's crime data explorer tool here: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...

I looked at homicide, location Louisiana, agency New Orleans Police Department for the last two years. There were multiple homicides recorded every month in 2023.

EDIT: I found that the New Orleans Police Department also publishes a daily Major Offense Log here:

https://nopdnews.com/transparency/major-offense-log/

It has a homicide reported as recently as 2024-09-21:

https://nopdnews.com/getattachment/2ed5b866-db79-4edb-aeda-7...

Yea sorry everything was coming up zero because they didn't submit supplemental data, so all filters based on that data (including age and other demographics) come back as zero.

Which is not the way 'nodata' should be returned.

But the point stands- eg Jackson ms didn't submit this year. So your get a 'state total' that doesn't include the majority of the data for the state.