Police Chief Says Thousands Trapped in New Orleans Convention Center

AP ^ | 1-Sept-2005 | AP

[Fitzcarraldo]

The New Orleans police chief says 15-thousand people are trapped in the city's convention center. And he says some are being raped and beaten.

Chief Eddie Compass says displaced tourists are "walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon."

Compass said he sent eight eleven-man teams into the convention center. But as soon as the first team arrived, he said, "they were beaten back within 30 feet of the entrance."

Earlier, the city's mayor issued a "desperate SOS" on behalf of the thousands who are stranded at the convention center.

He also gave the go-ahead for them to march across a bridge to a dry area of the city and look for whatever relief they could find.

[nicmarlo]

Glad they're not annoying you....don't want to overping... : )

[Rakkasan1]

as one freeper called it "Mogadishu on the Mississippi".

[browardchad]

"My question is this, has the crime rate risen in NO the past few days or is this how it is on a typical day there and we just do not hear about it on the National News?"

According to an article in the NY Sun today, NOLA's crime rate is ten times the national average.

[uncitizen]

I've been to N.O. many times myself. Know the place fairly well. And yes, it was one of my favorite cities to visit. I'm not much for cities. But when there is old architecture, beautiful nature, great food and fun to be had, i can appreciate a city.

Don't know where the Treme is? I have wandered into places in the area by accident that could be the place you describe.

wrt your: "the thugs of Treme should be tolerated with extreme prejudice.:",

I believe the rule is the words prejudice and tolerated can only be in the same sentence if the sentence is "prejudice cannot ever be tolerated". So don't do that again, ok?

[jpsb]

I could be wrong, just keeping an open mind, riots I think are not the same as recovering from a disaster, can't recall anything like this in a disaster recovery.

[clee1]

1) It's "martial" law.
2) LA has no such statute; but the do have a "state of emergency" which is nearly the same thing.
3) The corrupt democraps running NO and LA are too terrified of shooting down their electoral base.

[livius]

It's roots go back to the Great Society (about 12 years, in 1978).

[msnimje]

I found this very interesting paragraph on the Internet about Crime in N O.

Experts say the trend in the city that’s home to the popular French Quarter exists for several reasons, drugs, too few police, inexperienced prosecutors, and residents staying quiet because they fear retaliation. They point to an experiment last year by university researchers in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called police to report the gunfire

[hiredhand]

DF does NOT call family to tell them WHERE the current AOR is! This is a load of crap!

[Plutarch]

Have they declared Marshall law yet?

That would be martial law.

You are in good company, however, Senator Kerry made the same mistake in his Viet Nam journal, and as a Navy Officer, he ought to have known better.

IT says "Merry Christmas from the most inland Market Time unit." You hope that they'll court marshal you or something because that would make sense.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'll just post your personal bio on the internet if it gets to be too much.

Ha!

:)

[Argus]

For those of us unfamiliar with New Orleans, can you expand a bit on what the Treme neighborhood is, where and so on? (And how do you pronounce that?)

In any event, what's going on there now should be a salutary reminder to the reality-challenged among us (I mean liberals) that the veneer of civilization is at all times wafer-thin and fragile, and requires constant vigilance for its preservation.

[Horatio Gates]

Maybe I'm missing something...under martial law one wouldn't think that getting beat back at the door would not be an option.

[RoseofTexas]

I guess what I'm trying to state is those buses should have been designated for those who had medical problems, women and children. Those should have been priority and the first ones out of the Super dome!

[jimbo123]

http://www.governmentguide.com/community_and_home/morganmostdangerouscities.adp

Top 25 Most Dangerous Cities 2004

1 Camden, NJ
2 Detroit, MI
3 Atlanta, GA
4 St. Louis, MO
5 Gary, IN
6 Washington, DC
7 Hartford, CT
8 New Orleans, LA
9 Richmond, VA
10 Birmingham, AL
11 Baltimore, MD

[AmericanInTokyo]

Like I said, either U.S. Constitionally (or just in our minds) declare New Orleans and Louisana as FRIENDLY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, (and think of the looters as al-Qaeda or Zarkawi's thugs) and we will get our asses in there so quickly with all of our foreign-destined military assets to assure Western Democracy, American-style freedom, Liberty and Order, that we'll have the job done by Sunday morning. Forgoing that, it's liable to drag on for weeks.

[nicmarlo]

LOL!!!

you wouldn't dare!!!!! : )

[Redbob]

"I saw a show on Mardi Gras 12 years ago. It was repulsive. I said then that I would NEVER visit that city."

Was that show on TV?
And you believed everything you saw?

Who was the narrator, Peter Jennings?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

The problem is not "too many" in Iraq.

The problem is the governor NOT declaring martial law and allowing LE and military (NG) to use military tactics for riot control. They are trained in this and could have effectively nipped this situation in the bud had their hands NOT been tied by the PC police.

Once again, the Left denies the lessons of Chamberlain.

[Vladiator]

Why would tourists still be there?

Very few people rent cars when they fly to New Orleans. They take a cab from the airport. If they could not get out by Saturday (That was FIVE DAYS AGO) they have been stuck there, likely in their hotel rooms, raiding the mini bar and the gift shop, scooping water out of the ice maker to drink.

This isn't Blackhawk Down. These stories are becoming more and more like the movie "28 days later."