Flooding the city

Word choice, people! Get it together.

New Orleans — New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said his department will be flooding the French Quarter, Central Business District, Treme and Marigny with officers this week to control crime as revelers stream into New Orleans for a variety of big events.

Please, if at all possible, let us not encourage anyone charged with maintaining the public safety not to do anything that can be described as "flooding the city."  Especially when we're working so hard to get these numbers down.

Serpas’ said preliminary crime statistics show a small decrease in the city’s homicides in 2012 compared to 2011. New Orleans has recorded 193 homicides so far in 2012 compared to 199 in 2011. However, this year’s figure includes two homicides that were reported within minutes of Serpas announcing the slight decrease in killings and a third from early on Monday morning.

Now we're talking "preliminary crime statistics" here which I guess means we're still trying to figure out how to count the "mostly dead" but still go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you didn't murder anybody in 2012. Nice going.