NOPD is devoted to more workers during the decline of violent crime.

New Orleans (Wvue) – If someone is shot, the first priority for paramedics or doctors is to stop bleeding.

In many ways, the same strategy for the police department and the crime in New Orleans can apply. The NOPD has tried to stop bleeding in New Orleans in recent years.

According to the public crime of the city council of New Orlean of the city council of the city council of New Orlean, the dashboard of the city council of New Orleans, the city's number of murder exploded from the Covid 19 pandemic.

It has decreased since then: 192 murders in 2023, 125 in 2024 and this year's murder rate is up to date for an even steeper waste.

“At that time we were over 100 murders and now we are around 46 years old. These are much less victims and much less grieving families,” Nopd Deputy Suppt. Nicholas Gernon said in mid -June.

Gernon supervises NOPD detectives, which includes a team of Kaltfall investigators. With less murders and a drastic decline in other violent crimes, Gernon says that the Cold Case unit is now better able to concentrate on its main task.

“So some of these detectives had time to go back and to look at some of their older cases or to put more time in current cases,” said Gernon. “And I think it is really one reason why our free gaols for murders are 89 percent. This is phenomenal. The clearance rate of NOPD has been around 50 percent in the past 20 years,” said Gernon.

What takes place in the NOPD is far from the mode in which the department was located in three years when New Orleans was regarded as the “Murder Capital” of America.

There was not only an enormous bloodshed on the streets, but also the NOPD officials. The outbreak of violent crime seemed to increase the long history of recruitment of strength.

“In 2022, 2023 they had cold falling detectives who had to work active murders,” said Gernon. “They had cold-case detectives who had to go to other incidents. They were really in time. They were in uniform for many special events because we didn't have our bodies.”

Gernon says that the troop is now able to put more workers and attention in cold cases.

The NOPD has transferred eight new detectives to the Special victim department, which focuses on sex crimes and cases of child abuse. In contrast to shootings and murders in the past three years, reports on sex crimes have increased such as rape. A doctor says that a higher number of reported rape is not necessarily a negative indicator.

“These crimes are often subdued due to the personal nature of the crime,” said Dr. Jordan Pedalino, a specialist for sexual attacks by the Ministry of Health in New Orleans. “Sacrifices robbed so much.

“If we increase these numbers, this means that people trust the system. They trust nopd. More people seem to report and say: 'I have been sexually attacked.' This is important because most people do not trust the system.

In her role, Pedalino checks sexual attacks with forensic nurses, the law firm of the municipality of Orleans and the NOPD as well as advocacy organizations. She says it is encouraging to see that the NOPD devotes more resources for cold cases of sexual crime because they are very difficult to solve.

“A very small percentage of cases becomes nationwide, only about a third. And so the people are the survival-that they are not forgotten,” said Pedalino.

According to Gernon, the NOPD Cold Case Unit records some early results by raising more detectives on the Special victim division.

“We have solved 25 cold cases in sexual crimes this year,” said Gernon, “and I would say about a dozen cases of child abuse.”

Pedalino said: “Many of these perpetrators who find in these cold cases have committed more than once or are likely to be committed more than once again.”

In order to underline their point of view, detailed pedalino rape the NOPD cold case unit in 2011 last year. She said by the examination of an old rape kit and the reference to genetic results via the Codis database (Combined DNA Index System) Cold-Case detectives were able to combine the perpetrator in the 2011 rape with two other rape. Pedalino said that all three victims decided to find a feeling of solution to their respective cases with the prosecution, which helped them.

“It was really nice to see from the point of view of an outsider,” said Pedalino. “Three women come together and have had this common experience and can have justice and have the feeling of being heard and heard. All that came from an old kit and a codis hit.”

But many other families are still waiting for answers in murder cases in which their beloved people are involved.

The Open Mord Cases page on the Crimestopper of Greater New Orleans is full of pictures and descriptions of people whose murders are still unsolved. Under these cases there is that of Jakai Quinn.

“I don't think anyone could ever do to hurt me the way I will fail,” said Quinn's mother Tamika Profit. “I wake up every day and I hurt. I go to sleep every day, it hurts. So it is like whatever happens now. But I won't go out without fighting.”

According to NOPD, Quinn was killed on April 15, 2023 as part of a triple shootout in the Bartholomew Street in the St. Claude district. He was 16 years old.

“Someone found out about this Airbnb party where my son was,” said Profit. “And they told the boys who came there,” so and so it is in this place and I have their location. “And at the time my son was sitting in the car with his boyfriend and actually got ready to go, the car came up and started shooting, and my son was hit.

“He and two other people were met. But he was the only one who died.”

Profit said she rarely heard of murder detectives since her son was killed.

“After a while, it is as if they don't answer the phones. I call them consistently and nobody tells me something. I just need an update about what's going on,” said Profit.

Profit said she carried out her own investigations, a big reason why she left Louisiana.

“I come from New Orleans,” she said. “I was born and grew up there. I understand that what I do may want to hurt myself, and it's okay. I agree to it because I won't stop. But I have other children, i.e. for the security of my child, yes, I had to go.”

The NOPD published an explanation of the concerns of profits and said that it “had a deep sympathy for victims of violent crimes and their families who have suffered the loss of a loved one to murder” and supports support in the form of supporters from victim-Zehn and other resources.

“In cold cases in which the investigations have stalled and only a little new evidence, this can be particularly qualified for mourners if they do not hear as often as they hope,” said the department. “The cold case murder unit of the NOPD is still obliged to solve these cases, regardless of how long it takes. In the case they refer to, the main detective was in contact with the victim's family. Without updates, the detective had been back on June 26, 2025 without updates.”

Gernon says that he is more than aware of the many grieving and frustrated families who are waiting for developments in the case of their relatives. He advocated her patience and calls.

“If you have information, please let us know. Don't give up because we don't give up these cases,” he said.

According to Gernon, new evidence or tips can have a fresh look at a specific case. The solution to cases, he said, could not only bring a certain closure, but also be the tool in storing detectives.

“It brings a feeling of relief for the victim's family, but it also reduces our burnout,” he said. “Detectives are also people. If they have enormous fallloads that are shoveled over them, they burn out, transfer the job. They leave the job. This helps us create more justice for our survivors, but also better conditions so that our detectives of this level continue to offer this level.”

Much of what takes place in the cold case unit largely depends on what happens outside of yours. The dramatic turn in the murder rate has taken place itself when the department has to struggle with reduced workers within its officer. If the criminal pendulum swings again in the other direction, the police could try again to stop bleeding.

“If we start to have significant spikes in violent crimes, we may have to re -evaluate how much we can bring in the cold case unit,” said Gernon.

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