New Orleans Homicides 2025. Head down to the crescent city and enjoy all of its culinary and festive offerings. Rapes are down 43%, homicides were reduced by 40%, aggravated assaults are down 22% and rapes are down 2% in new orleans, according to the major cities chiefs association violent crime survey.

Murders in new orleans are down about 40% so far this year, part of the nation’s quickest homicide rate decline pace in decades. 90% of 2023 homicides are classified as “ murders;” 5% of 2023 homicides were vehicular;