Hey it's a chocolate thing Baby. You wouldn't understand.
Posted on 07/31/2006 5:28:17 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
In June, five teenagers were gunned down while sitting in a sport utility vehicle, sparking the return of state police and National Guard troops to help keep the peace in the city. This weekend, six people were shot to death in 24 hours.
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I spent about 8 months in New Orleans back in 1996, running a project for what was then Bellsouth Mobility. Now, I'll qualify this with also stating that I have either worked in or traveled through 49 of the 50 states. Many places I've been in the US were, shall we say, on the seedy side of town, since cellular telephone sites are rarely placed on the good side of the tracks. I've also been to 16 countries with my work, and some were not so nice places like Nicaragua. Of all the places I've been I've never heard so much automatic gunfire and seen so many drug deals go down right out in the open, often within sight of Police, as I have seen and experienced in New Orleans. Never have I ever been to a place where the local population tried to separate you from your money, one way or the other.
New Orleans' image has forever been tarnished in my eyes. I wouldn't go back on a bet.
What image was there to tarnish?
Don't they mean the deaths just shine up the image we've always had of New Orleans? More deaths, more heat, more city that should have been allowed to sink.
One time in New Orleas East I stumbled across someone's shotgun in their backyard. There's only one reason to keep a weapon outside the house. The guys who were hanging around in the frontyard went and re-hid it as I was working. New Orleans crime problem is from the eople who moved into it a generation ago. Most all the true New Orleanians no longer live in New Orleans.
Wonder what this writer of this article meant by "tarishes N.O."
N.O. has always been tarnished, and we seen how much during, after Katrina....
I'm shattered, I thought NOLA was just about whores, drugs, earning beads, and voodoo.
Just how does this tarnish NO's image? Since the image is that of a corrupt crime ridden welfare $hithole, this simply continues to confirm what everyone already knew.
Patriot Act IV: National ID, internal passport, background check before moving to a new jurisdiction, etc. It's a Big Easy to do.
Hey it's a chocolate thing Baby. You wouldn't understand.
I'd be quite surprised if this is anything other than that. New Orleans' murder statistics have had a high "good riddance" factor for as long as I can recall.
It was common, particularly near the public housing areas, for bystanders to be wounded or killed when this sort of violence flared up. Fortunately, those housing projects are still closed. The city is being sued by HUD, IIRC, to compel the reopening of the public housing developments.
That'd be a fine way of ensuring that the maximum amount of criminals can return home. The plaintiffs and their attorneys should have to live across the street from the worst of those places.
There's a new ingredient in the gumbo pot these days, too: Hispanic gangs. Six people killed in one day is bad, even by New Orleans' standards... but if there's a "homegrown thugs vs. immigrant gangs" rivalry thing going on, the bloodshed is just beginning.
Because if the cops found it inside the house they have you dead to rights. If it's in a backyard you can claim someone else ditched it there.
I went to law school at Tulane (obviously) and lived in Nola for 10 years. This is par for the course. In 2000 there were 500+ people murdered in a city of 500,000. It was almost all black on black crime.
I now live in Northern Virginia. There are 1,000,000 in Fairfax County alone. Less than 100 muders in the last 2 years...hmmm....
If these are only druggies killing each other, maybe it's not such a bad thing.
I'd be quite surprised if this is anything other than that. New Orleans' murder statistics have had a high "good riddance" factor for as long as I can recall.
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Unfortunatley, that is incorrect. True, the people doing the killing are often drug dealers or career criminals. But the sad fact is a lot of innocent people (including tourists) get killed or injured (at the very least, mugged at gun point).
It is a way of life in Ciudad de Chocolatate.
It is obviously the availability of guns in Northern Virinia that causes the high murder rate in New Orleans. This is simply following the "logic" of the black democratic "leadership" of DC, since they blame guns in Va for murders in DC. Since guns in VA cause murders in DC, why not in New Orleans too?
NOLA murders...we need an immediate ceasefire to break the cycle of violence.
LOl...too true. Give it time, maybe they will blame the guns in NOVA for the crime in NOLA. Clearly though, the root cause of NOLA's problems are the Bush administration and it's white hot (pun intended) hatred of black people. Condi Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas notwithstanding.
The only city I've been to that really reminds me of New Orleans is Port Au Prince, Haiti.
I want State Police and National Guard troops in Houston. Mayor Bob-White wants federal tax dollars for local police (so he can continue to syphon off local taxes for his property rich buddies).
If we are going to have a high violent crime rate (and we do) and if he is going ot blame it on Katrina (which he does every time he's in front of a press pool), then I want accountability FOR those police.
A friend of mine was shot last month in a drive by downtown and it got ZERO press. Not billed a hate crime or anything. Guess because it happened in the billion dollar "entertainment district".
I guess they'll let crime continue to "get out of hand" (by slacking off) so that we beg for a police state. Actually we already have that in town because the focus is on "revenue generating" fines instead of crimes with victims.
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