Posted on 09/01/2005 10:22:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, "nearly 10 times the national average," reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans -- and criminals so fierce -- that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon "no one called to report the gunfire," reported AP.
New Orleans was ripe for collapse. Its dangerous geography, combined with a dangerous culture, made it susceptible to an unfolding catastrophe. Currents of chaos and lawlessness were running through the city long before this week, and they were bound to come to the surface under the pressure of natural disaster and explode in a scene of looting and mayhem.
Like riotous Los Angeles since the 1960s, New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades -- public schools so obviously decimated vouchers were proposed this year (and torpedoed by the left), barbaric gangster rap culture no one will confront lest they offend liberal pieties, multiculturalist frauds who empower no one but themselves, and cops neutered by the NAACP and ACLU.
Criminals have ruled New Orleans for some time, convincing many members of the middle class, long before the hurricane, that the city was unlivable. In 1994, New Orleans was the murder capital of America. It had 421 murders that year. Criminologists predicted 300 murders this year, a projection that now looks quite conservative.
Criminals dominate their neighborhoods to the point that people don't even call in crimes. The district attorney's office, tacitly admitting that the city's law-abiding citizens live in fear, has taken the "unusual" step of establishing a local witness protection program to encourage the reporting of crime, reports AP.
According to the New Orleans Police Foundation, most murderers get off -- only 1 in 4 are convicted -- and 42 percent of cases involving serious crimes since 2002 have been dropped by prosecutors.
Meanwhile, cops, when they can get away with it, have been living out of town. It is far too scary for them and their families. New Orleans Police officers are required to live in the city but many ignore this residency requirement, according to the Times-Picayune. The paper discovered that many top-ranking New Orleands cops lived in the suburbs and that most cops, both black and white, wanted the residency requirement rescinded.
For reasons of political correctness -- critics of law enforcement say lifting the residency requirement will mean more white cops eager to brutalize residents of the inner city and fewer black cops understanding of them -- the residency requirement remains, though cops breaking the rule told the Times-Picayune that it seriously hurts recruitment. It also -- this is particularly evident in Los Angeles where cops involved in the Ramparts scandal turned out to be ex-criminals -- distorts recruitment.
If the New Orleans Police Department has appeared feeble during the chaos -- and in some cases complicit in it -- policies like the residency requirement explain the breakdown. (Perhaps another factor that has rendered the NOPD feckless in the face of a rising murder rate is the criticism of its handling of a minority Mardi Gras.) Americans who have seen cops join in the looting ask: Why are police officers behaving like criminals? Well, because PC police departments like the NOPD hire them. Aggressive, let's-just-meet-the-quota-style affirmative action has become the door through which criminals enter the police academy.
More than the physical foundations of New Orleans will need to be rebuilt over the next few years. Its politically correct culture in which pathologies are allowed to fester in the name of "progress" forms much of the debris that must be cleared away if civilization is to return to New Orleans. A city which boasts as one of its businesses memorial "death t-shirts" -- clothing made popular by the frequency of gangland slayings in New Orleans that say things like, "Born a Pimp, Died a Playa" -- was headed for collapse even without a hurricane, and had become, as the exodus of cops illustrates, unlivable.
Conservative black leaders have been mau-maued into silence whenever they tell the truth about this barbarism and call for dramatic reform. But they are the ones who must lead the city now, and the phonies at organizations like the NAACP who despite all their rhetoric haven't done a thing to help the black underclass should step aside. Hurricane Katrina has made vivid the civilizational collapse they have long tried to conceal.
George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Spectator.
I don't think they have had hundreds of years to assimilate.
The clock doesn't start, IMO until 1955 or later.
However, the prognosis for assimilation of the bottom quartile descended from the former enslaved population is poor.
I know I'd be stealing drugs, TV's, guns, etc.... then maybe food and water. Yeah then I'd rape some women and maybe shoot at the relief people.. What a way to live.
Do you live in the south or have you only visited? They have always had areas where people lived in poverty. Things didn't really get out of control until gangs set up business in the larger cities in the south. That would be considered an influence from the North and West instead of a problem generated from only poverty.
There used to be a time when families living in poverty had a community where they depended on helping each other instead of shooting one another. Liberals telling them that they can;'t do any better and it is understandable that they can't behave any better has caused a breakdown in decent behavior.
Hey, Buddie... Stretch, the Old Geezer here.. I too, live in the South.... atlanta suburbs... Great place to live...
As to this article, it is the truth, plain and simple... Whereever the liberal culture, the NAACP, ACLU, jESSE JACKSON, SHARPTON, AND THE REST OF THE CABAL MEET AND PLAN STRATEGY, YOU WILL SEE the destruction taking place. Atlanta... Corruption from the ground up...Detroit... Philadelphia... Jersey... Gary... Los Angeles...No end to the liberal corruption.... And the poor blacks are so mislead by the Liberals to the point that they have no future.... no chance They are truly held back by the ones (liberals) they look up to. they are better at propaganda than even the Hitler regime....
Hey, Buddie... Stretch, the Old Geezer here.. I too, live in the South.... atlanta suburbs... Great place to live...
As to this article, it is the truth, plain and simple... Whereever the liberal culture, the NAACP, ACLU, jESSE JACKSON, SHARPTON, AND THE REST OF THE CABAL MEET AND PLAN STRATEGY, YOU WILL SEE the destruction taking place. Atlanta... Corruption from the ground up; Detroit. Philadelphia. Jersey. Gary. Los Angeles. No end to the liberal corruption. And the poor blacks are so mislead by the Liberals to the point that they have no future. no chance They are truly held back by the ones (liberals) they look up to. they are better at propaganda than even the Hitler regime.
Sounds like Philly x 10.
" When you dont have any money, a vehicle, or anywhere else to go. What are you supposed to do?
Plenty of immigrants have come to this country with nothing but the clothes on their backs and a dream. Somehow, many have made it. What I am seeing in NO is the product of liberal welfare policies that won't make anyone take responsibility for their lives. Many of these public assistance lifers are just standing there waiting for a handout. I'd be damned before I would stand on an overpass for five days waiting on government aid.
"You're a freaking idiot. Most, not all, people that live in poverty in the "deep south" are too freaking lazy to work.
You're a moron."
Im amazed at the high quality of members joining FR nowadays.
Sad that a lot on here just regurgitate ideololgical lines. These people are slobs and too lazy to work blah blah blah....Thats they should be left to die. Become a free thinking individual, and not a mouthpiece for talking points.
You're right. We all would start spontaneously raping defenseless women if we were ever in a flood situation.
Keep making excuses for these subhuman animals.
You are an idiot of almost unprecedented proportions.
No surprise there. New Orleans' Mardi Gras has devolved into a Babylonian orgy. There is a certain symetry that occurs in societies: lack of restraint in sexual mores correlates with lack of restraint in the arena of violence.
(1) There was no one in N.O. who was unable to scrape up $40 for a bus to Baton Rouge. Even the homeless people in N.O. when I was there seemed to be perfectly capable of buying bottles of liquor and sixpacks of beer. If you have enough money for hightops or gold fronts, you have enough money for a bus ticket.
(2) If you have no car, no place to go and little money, take a bus out of town and go to a homeless shelter.
There were apparently isolated incidents in Brooklyn and the Bronx which the polic put an immediate stop to.
I walked half the length of Manhattan the night of the blackout and I saw people of all races cooperating with one another, restaurants giving away food for free, vendors selling drinks for low prices, and stores doing business almost as usual (only taking cash, of course).
The streets were dark and packed with people who did not know how to get home, but I saw no violence of any kind and no theft.
Where did the name "The Big Easy" come from?
Minorities don't have to pay back their student loans? Then why does some girl named Sallie Mae send me a bill every month ever since I graduated? I must have checked the wrong box.
There was one in '77 as well.
Actually, looting of non-survival items in times of disaster is fairly rare, historically. And all poor neighborhoods are not created equal. The biggest single factor that correlates with criminal behavior is lack of a biological father involved in child-rearing: back when whites had higher illegitimacy rates than blacks, they also had higher crime rates; today that situation is reversed, though whites are catching up again. But no, these people are criminals, not survivalists.
It's very easy to discern. The former will be found with only foodstuffs and first aid items in their possession and will generally be accompanied by their children or infirm family members.
The latter will be found with expensive footwear, jewelry, electronics and liquor, traveling in wolfpacks comprised almost entirely of able-bodied men who are doing nothing to help fellow citizens.
It should take about one-half of one second to see the difference.
Black success predated 1955 in America, particularly during the roaring twenties.
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