Posted on 01/02/2007 6:15:22 PM PST by Ellesu
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About the best that could be said of New Orleans' murder rate in 2006 is that it has held relatively steady over the past six months.
The worst is that, if it continues steady for six months more, the city would have a 12-month murder rate about eight to 12 times the national average for cities its size, rather than this year's multiple of seven to 10.
Three New Year's Eve killings brought the city's murder total to 161 for 2006. Depending on which population estimate is used, that works out to a rate of 60 to 81 killings per 100,000 residents. But two-thirds of the murders were in the last half of the year.
"We had 105 homicides in the last two quarters. Double that, and you get to 210. There's no city in recent memory — I don't know what happened in the '20s — that had anything like that," said Peter Scharf, executive director of the Center for Society, Law and Justice at the University of New Orleans.
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QUAGMIRE
Bush's -----.
Like hell. I would send them to Duke, first.
...or maybe not.
...and cue the the let's-turn-NOLA-into-wetlands and the it's-God's-punishment folks...
If we'd ship about 150,000 of them back from Houston, they could set all kinds of neat records.
Is this the same New Orleans that was reported to be filling up with illegals working on reconstruction, or the one that's corrupt top to bottom?
Thank goodness they dispatched most of the flooded-out convicts and mental patients to Houston, TX or things would be much, much worse for NOLA! /sarcasm
Was anyone around for the 'Cuban Boat People' rescue during the Carter years? I'll tell you a few stories that are comparable to the Katrina disaster if you're interested...
A fallen city..
Clearly, the NO police should re-deploy to remote locations outside the city. If there should be a carjacking, murder, or mugging, only then should they dispatch into the city a team to take care of the problem.
Fault.
Civil War!!!
***Was anyone around for the 'Cuban Boat People' rescue during the Carter years?***
I remember it back in 1959-1961. Florida began it's slide into the toilet.
You mean like Las Vegas?
Well, you trumped me! I was going to talk about the prisoners I had to guard at Fort Mc Coy, WI in 1979 and the seemingly endless MILES of concertina wire I had to string, making my beloved Fort McCoy into a prison for blood-thirsty lunatics.
I SWEAR I did NOT put panties on their heads...though some were wearing them that way during in-processing. *Rolleyes*
"The boatlift began to have negative political implications for U.S. President Jimmy Carter when it was discovered that a number of the exiles had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities. The exodus was ended by mutual agreement between the two governments in October 1980, but by that time up to 125,000 had made the journey to Florida."
One of them stabbed a state co-worker to death in front of her young daughter. I do NOT have good memories from that year.
Carter: Worst. President. Ever!
I imagine most of the civilized people who lived in NO pre-Katrina took their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get out and stay out. Not really surprising that the ones who chose to go back are disproportionately violent criminals.
Im surprised the MSM hasnt declared it a civil war
Ray.
"I imagine most of the civilized people who lived in NO pre-Katrina took their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get out and stay out."
Huh? How does this explain the violent crime rate jump in Houston, TX where most ended up?
No one seems to be releasing any data on the vast number of "upstanding law-abiding citizens of NOLA" who have made a fresh start elsewhere.
Oh, so sorry! I see what you mean now. Yes, the low-lives would go back to seek their own level. Understood.
I was all wrapped up in my ire for the Cuban mental patients I had to deal with. Crossed threads. I'm human...
Her name was Lorae Love. She didn't deserve to die the way she did, and her daughter didn't deserve a lifetime of remembering how her Mama died in front of her eyes.
Gawd, I HATE Jimmy Carter! I can't believe how f-ed up this country became in only FOUR short years.
And with only half the population it used to have too!
Shocking I tell ya.
Its a rough town,no doubt.I was lucky.Only had my car battery stolen once,got rocks thrown at me once in 1970 in a strange neighborhood and got cursed out a bunch of times.
I got out in 1977.Before the Crack Monster came to town and the whole bling bling,"I got to get mine,so I'm gonna take yours"ethic came into the mix.
Some good folks down there,however.Even in the hood.Incredible displays of love and hospitality I never will forget.
60 to 81 per hundred thousand, isn’t that higher that Iraqi?
We had a bunch break out of Fort Chaffee near Ft. Smith Arkansas. in 1979-1980.
My first post was refering to the first boats load back when Castro first came to power.
It's obviously because of the easy availability of guns in New Orleans. They have guns there that just don't exist anywhere else in the world. /sarcasm
If the figures remain steady, Sharf notes, that would mean a June-to-June rate of 105 killings per 100,000 residents.Almost twice the highest murder rate for 2005?
National figures for 2006 won't be in for months. But in 2005, the highest rate in any city was 67 per 100,000 in Compton, Calif., a city of just under 97,000. New Orleans wasn't included in FBI crime statistics last year because of Hurricane Katrina.
There may be a lot of them, but thank goodness they're controlled murders!
As bad as that was, it will seem like paradise compared to eight years of President Hildebeast.
I actually had a dream I had moved BACK there last month.Thank God I woke up.
Do you ever go to nola.com?Great sight for all the latest madness.This week a couple of thugs robbed a Mexican restaurant on South Jeff Parkway.The bartender blasted one dude,the other ran the hell on out.
The remaining customers proceeded to give the wounded robber the butt whipping of his life.
I lived at Dante and Hickory and later at Gen Taylor and Magazine.Used to teach at Carver High in the Ninth Ward.Before Marshall Faulk's time there.
How's it measure up against Baghdad ?
We need to train the local population to police themselves. How many more American lives will be lost in that civil-war? Seriously, a city that, by comparison, makes Detroit look safe is not somewhere I want to go.
I've had a knife pulled on me
I've had a gun pulled on me
I've been chased by muggers
I've been "felt up" my another male
I felt genuinely unsafe walking the streets
I had a close friend murdered after being raped twice
and this was between 1978 - 1986
Good grief. That is amazing. There is nothing else to say. What a mess of a city.
I once saw a bunch of people from Charity playing softball up near City Park along Marconi Drive. They all wore matching t-shirts which read: "Charity ER: Where the life you save may one day take yours", or similar words to that effect.
Would be nice if these reporters would get off their butts , do a little work and report to us who is killing who, etc.
I think I read that they were both killed in Houston by a Katrina 'victim.'
Glad to see that folks are taking The Road Home.
http://www.road2la.org/
"The program affords eligible homeowners up to $150,000".
Not bad if you live in a $20,000 shotgun shack, and have used all of your FEMA and SBA eligibility.
Is this a civil war yet or still an insurgency?
of the reported murders in baghdad it is a murder rate of 195.41 per 100,000 residents.
"The remaining customers proceeded to give the wounded robber the butt whipping of his life."
Well, the robber won't be repeating his crime anywhere else...he's dead.
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