Murder Rates: What's The Matter With Louisiana? | Blog Posts
By Jeff Asher, Ben Horwitz and Toni Monkovic Feb. 15, 2021 For 31 straight years, Louisiana has reported the nation’s highest murder rate. To solve that puzzle, first consider a wider pattern in the South: a history of violence that stretches back further still. A New York Times article in 1998 pointed to “a divergence that has persisted for as long as records have been kept” in which “the former slaveholding states of the old Confederacy all rank in the top 20 states for murder, led by Louisiana, with a rate of 17.5 murders per 100,000 people in 1996.” It’s almost as if states th...
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