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November 29, 2010

New Orleans Police Department – Public Information Office

Bayou Classic Holiday/> Weekend

Reduction in Crime

New Orleans/>, LA/>/> – Superintendent Ronal W. Serpas has released uniform crime numbers for this year’s, 2010, Bayou Classic celebration.  The raw data collected represents the period for Thursday, November 25, 2010, through 7:00 A.M., Sunday, November 28, 2010.

In reviewing data, the eighteen (18) reported major U.C.R. crimes, of which fifteen (15) were Property crimes, represent a forty-six (46) percent decrease for the same four day Bayou Classic weekend from 2009. 

Arrests data for the years 2007 through 2010 represent the following:

2007

State Arrests 7

Municipal Arrests 81

Fugitive Arrests 23

Narcotic Arrests 9

Juvenile Arrests (data not available)

Curfew Arrests (data not available)

Summons (data not available)

Total Arrests 120

2008

State Arrests 14

Municipal Arrests 54

Fugitive Arrests 23

Narcotic Arrests 14

Juvenile Arrests (data not available)

Curfew Arrests (data not available)

Summons (data not available)

Total Arrests 105

2009

State Arrests 13

Municipal Arrests 60

Fugitive Arrests 14

Narcotic Arrests 3

Juvenile Arrests (data not available)

Curfew Arrests (data not available)

Summons (data not available)

Total Arrests 106

2010

State Arrests 22

Municipal Arrests 21

Fugitive Arrests 3

Narcotic Arrests 1

Juvenile Arrests 1

Curfew Arrests 48

Summons 12

Total Arrests 108

The 2010 Bayou Classic Deployment Plan was comprehensive, calling for nearly 400 Officers working two 12 hour shifts, with 26 Mounted Officers patrolling the French Quarter, Canal Street and the Central Business District areas; Traffic Officers assigned at key intersections to assist motorists and pedestrians traveling to and from the Superdome; Special Operations Officers assigned to Bourbon Street and French Quarter perimeter coverage; Plainclothes Officers blending in with celebrants; Additional District Officers deployed to argument existing Eighth District Officers in French Quarter, Canal Street, CBD and Superdome corridors.

Superintendent Serpas said, “Despite what we believe at this point was an on-going feud between two men from Baton Rouge that resulted in a shooting, the success of this past weekend was contributed to a Bayou Classic Deployment Plan which included increased personnel to ensure high visibility of police in the French Quarter, Canal Street and the Central Business District areas, the high intensity highway lighting systems on Bourbon Street and strategically placed Sky Watch towers along with the cooperation of all attendees to this event.” 

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Officer Hilal Williams