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 theNola 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.