[Soul of the South]

Didn’t Houston’s crime rate jump dramatically when the Katrina victims were resettled there?

[wideawake]

Don't know about total crime, but homicides spiked dramatically. Katrina hit August 29, 2005.

Houston homicides:

2004 272
2005 334
2006 376
2007 351
2008 294
2009 281
2010 267

Remember than New Orleans in 2004 had a much higher per capita murder rate than Detroit, Baltimore or Memphis despite being whiter than any of those cities.