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Crime Data Comparison: Hurricane Katrina And New Orleans
Crime Data Comparison Paper

By Geraldine D. Jones

CJA / 314- Criminology

Instructor: Jeri Guido

The two metropolitan areas that I have selected are New Orleans my hometown where I was born and raised before hurricane Katrina and Corpus Christi, Texas my new hometown where I have resided at since hurricane Katrina. The Criminal Offense for New Orleans and for Corpus Christi, Texas is Property Crime.

In 2005 the city of New Orleans held 463,072 people. And now its five years after hurricane Katrina and there are 343,829 people living in the still-recovering city. In racial breakdown of New Orleans they have 217,256 Blacks; 105,732 White; 16, 812 Hispanic; 10,806 Asian; two or more race 2,910; other race 969; American …show more content…
Before survivors came to Corpus Christi they had more Larceny/Theft occurred. In New Orleans Property Crime was still at an all time high.

|New Orleans 2005 | |Corpus Christi, Texas 2005 | |
|Property Crime |10,612 |Larceny Theft |15,870 |
|Violent Crime |2,089 |Property Crime |7,044 |
|Larceny Theft |5,823 |Motor Vehicle Theft |906 |
|Vehicle Theft |2,512 |Burglary |3,357 |
|Burglary |2,277 |Aggravated Assault |1,342
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