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The South > Louisiana > Crime

LOUISIANAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Arson deaths 1.07 [26th of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution 20 [5th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection 7 [17th of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 19.5 [3rd of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female 22.8 % [36th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons 14.2 % [45th of 49]
Lynchings > Black 335 [4th of 44]
Lynchings > Total 391 [4th of 44]
Lynchings > White 56 [7th of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities 36,939 [10th of 50]
Robbery 5,729 [23rd of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails 17,469 [1st of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities 2,921 [9th of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths 150 [11th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides 0 [48th of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides 2 [40th of 50]
Stop and Identify statutes > States with "Stop and Identify" statutes
La. Code Crim. Proc. Ann., Art. 215.1(A)
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11 3 [18th of 40]
Violent crime 29,919 [17th of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities 2,386 [9th of 50]

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SOURCES: US Fire Administration, 2001; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005; statehealthfacts.org; Bureau of Justice Statistics ; UMKC School of Law; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.; Wikipedia: Stop and Identify statutes ; September 11th, 2001 Victims, website memorial, last update - Sept. 21, 2002.

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