Posted on 01/07/2007 9:19:38 AM PST by Graybeard58
NEW ORLEANS -- With at least eight slayings in the city in the first week of the new year, officials are considering a curfew to help stem the violence, the police superintendent said Saturday.
"It's something we're just sort of talking about, to see if that will make a difference," police Superintendent Warren Riley said.
Mayor Ray Nagin, meanwhile, urged residents not to leave the city, still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, because of the recent killings. He said the slayings could be a tipping point that "galvanizes our community" to find solutions.
Some residents have called for a march on City Hall on Thursday to demand action to curb the violence.
Nagin and Riley both tried to reassure residents that they were doing all they can to make the city safer.
Riley said some covert operations were under way and Nagin said he hoped to have details next week on a "more creative, aggressive" plan developed in talks he has had with local ministers.
Riley said the slayings are a part of a chronic problem that goes back to the city's school system and what he sees as the city's failure, over many years, to adequately educate and provide job opportunities for residents.
He said he's also concerned about making sure "hard-core criminals" are prosecuted and kept in jail.
Problems will continue until there are improvements in the criminal justice system, which has struggled to get court cases moving again since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, Riley said.
Is New Orleans on the brink of civil war? Stop the sectarian violence. Send more troops. it's Bush's fault!
/sarc
Good times in Chocolate City.
A murder a day keeps the tourists away.
It will be a long time, if ever, that New Orleans returns to civilization.
New Orleans should be "Escape From New York" with Snake Pliskin. No one allowed out! Ever!
So now crime is due to a lack of full blown socialism huh? How about the Moms and Dads teaching junior that it is wrong to steal and kill. I know, silly me, too many antiquated notions there like Dads being around to teach and the Ten Commandments.
That would be funny if it weren't so incredibly sad that the speaker actually believes it. It must be pure he!! to go through life as the victim in every situation.
Bad math.
They are off to a pretty good start but Washington, D.C. ran at better than one a day in the middle 1980's; did 367 one year if I remember correctly.
Just how many years have Democrats been running New Orleans? They readily admit failure, yet people line up at the ballot boxes to vote them back into office year after year. What is wrong with these people???!!!
"Bad math."
I think he planned it. Take a page out of the dim play book.........."Never let the truth or facts get in the way of a good sound bite."
"Riley said the slayings are a part of a chronic problem that goes back to the city's school system and what he sees as the city's failure, over many years, to adequately educate and provide job opportunities for residents".
...BULLS$$$! This has been a "democrat utopia" for 50 years! NO conservatives have been a part of anything for this hell-hole for a long time. The media (at least Brit Hume, somebody) should do an expose related to the corruption, incompetencies and sheer financial rape of this city from it's fine democratic leaders. This city is where it is today because THIS IS WHERE IT WANTS TO BE! THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIG HAND-OUT!! This is reflective of what (god forgive me) Oprah found out in Chicago. She asked kids what they wanted and they all said i-pods. She went to South Africa and they said an education. Whether it's true or not and even though I despise Oprah, there does seem to be a pattern. IT FITS! Crime and murder is part of their culture! They wouldn't know how to deal with the rule of law!!!
It's all about "BLING"! And I'm not being sarcastic.
??? Eight in a week times 52 weeks in a year is only 416 in a year. I think you miss placed a decimal point somewhere.
And if the curfew fails, they can always try "Midnight Basketball." /s
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