New Orleans Again Nation's Murder Capital
“The Times-Picayune determined that with 64 killings per 100,000 people in 2008, New Orleans had the highest per capita murder rate in the nation, well ahead of second-place St. Louis, which had 47 murders per 100,000 people.” (via)
The murder rate is down from 2007, when it was 89 murders per 100,000. Still safer than Caracas, Venezuela, at 130 per 100,000.
New Orleans: safer than the barrios of Caracas!