GNO, Inc. Sunday Night Highlight – A Historic Year for Lower Crime in New Orleans

In 2025, New Orleans recorded one of its safest years in modern history, marked by the fewest murders in half a century and the lowest number of shootings ever documented.

According to year-end data, the city finished 2025 with 108 murders (excluding the Jan. 1 terror attack), the lowest total in 50 years. Furthermore, New Orleans recorded just 260 shootings, the fewest on record. These outcomes represent a dramatic turnaround from the peak of violence in 2022, when the city recorded 265 murders.

While many other cities across the United States have seen improvements in safety, New Orleans’ nearly 60% decrease in murders from 2022 to 2025far exceeds than the national average of 17%, per FBI and CDC data.

The progress was not limited to homicides. Armed robberies and carjackings fell sharply, nonfatal shootings declined, and property crimes like burglaries and auto theft dropped by more than half compared to recent years. Together, the data point to a sustained, multi-year reduction in violent and property crime across the city.

While no single factor explains the shift, the results reflect a broader ecosystem at work. Improved coordination among local, state, and federal agencies, community-based violence interruption programs, higher felony conviction rates, constitutional technology, and advances in trauma response have all played a role in preventing violence and saving lives. Importantly, many of these efforts focus on stopping conflicts before they escalate, producing outcomes that are measured not only in statistics but in lives uninterrupted.

These 2025 numbers do not erase loss, but they do demonstrate remarkable progress.

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Best wishes for a safe and prosperous New Year.