In the Diario article, quoting Arturo Valenzuela:
Dijo que las cosas en esta frontera ha mejorado dramáticamente al grado de presentar cifras de incidencia delictiva por debajo de Nueva Orleáns, donde hubo un registro mensual de 50 muertos.
He said that in this border city the rate of crime has dramatically improved that the crime numbers are now below those of New Orleans where there was a monthly tally of 50 deaths…
I checked the current crime stats from New Orleans that indicates there have been 109 murders so far this year–that is current as of today, July 21. It is likely the highest murder rate in a US city. New Orleans only has about 350,000 people. That would be a murder rate of about 31 per 100,000.
But the Diario article goes on to say that there have been 19 murders in Juarez so far in July, and that would not count at least 2 killed on Thursday, one yesterday and one today (Saturday). By my tally, there were 540 murders in Juarez as of June 30, so now we can say there are at least 560+. That would calculate to a murder rate of 46 based on a Juarez population of 1.2 million.
At the link, you can check the numbers of murders in New Orleans for the year.
I have been collecting the stories on Juarez murders, though I’ve not posted them. It looks like between one and two people per day have been victims of homicide in Juarez so far in July. Certainly an improvement over recent years. But the annual tally so far just past mid-year is nearly twice what it was in 2007.
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