NO MURDER Caracas Venezuela Cape Town South Africa New Orleans

Sheldon Fox: The story is about murders world-wide, and it says that Crescent City cracks the top three. The New Orleans sky high murder rate and violent crime is nothing new, but did you know the city is now part of a new short list according to a global website. The International Business Times named New Orleans the third most murderous city in the world. Caracas, Venezuela and Cape Town, South Africa sit atop the list which measures rates by the number of murders per 100,000 people. When stories like this emerge for the outside world there’s only one way to measure the mood of those plugging the city- it’s bad. Community activist and Reverend Patrick King works with at-risk kids in Central City, and says taking down the number of killings here will start when education improves. He does see progress here, and he reminded us that it’s been a while since we covered a murder on his block. But elsewhere? New Orleans cops today identified the woman who was last seen alive here at The Howl & Wolf last Saturday morning. She was later found dead in the ninth ward with a gunshot wound to the body. Kirsten Brydum was a 25 year old who came to New Orleans last week from San Francisco. Cops also say she was shot several times in the head. It’s the city’s 145th killing and Reverend King has a world of ideas on how to stop the bleeding.

Reverend King: If you don’t invest in human development, housing, economic, political investments or development will not bring us the results we’re looking for. Instead of spending $700 billion in bailing out Wall Street what would happen if we just invested $100 billion in educating the crack babies?