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(The Center Square) — In Louisiana, violent and property crime numbers across the state have dropped from recent years. Despite this, a survey earlier this year from the Manship School at LSU ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents.
All categories of crime decreased in 2012 from 2011, except for robbery, which saw a 4.6% increase. Louisiana's overall crime rate, at 4,037.5, ranked fourth among U.S. states in 2012. Among the ten largest cities in Louisiana, the town of Alexandria had the highest crime rate at 9,174.6 crimes per 100,000 people.
Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots , along with other trends and patterns.
That analysis of violent crime data surveyed 27 cities, including many big agencies that didn’t make the FBI’s uniform crime report this year. It found a 5.6% increase in the murder rate over ...
Louisiana, a state grappling with one of the highest rates of incarceration and violent crime in the country, is on the cusp of overhauling parts of its criminal justice system as the state's GOP ...
Donaldsonville (historically French: Lafourche-des-Chitimachas) [2] is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [3] Located along the River Road of the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is a part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
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