New Orleans witnessed its 100th murder of 2015 a week ago. A 29 year-old local man was shot in his car in the French Quarter. The city did not see it’s 100th murder last year until late August. New Orleans had seen a decline in its murder rate the past three years.
Charles West is the director of the City of New Orleans Innovation Delivery Team. His unit oversees the Nola For Life program, a neighborhood level initiative that targets communities with high murder rates .
West spoke with WWNO reporter Jesse Hardman about the rise in murders this year, and his strategy for dealing with that ongoing problem.