Posted on 01/06/2007 12:41:29 PM PST by LdSentinal
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.
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 sometime 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.
Quagmire.....must get out now!
Chocolate City has returned to normal.
Don't worry, FEMA is on it. They'll no doubt start giving away debit cards, courtesy of the taxpayer.
Let's see. 8 killings a week works out to about 400 a year. Sounds about right to me.
Yeah, that worked out real well the last time, didn't it Mayor Chocolate?
*Rolling my eyes*
Since the DA has declared war on law-and-order cops, the police aren't going to go out of their way to suppress crime.
Compare the state of LA with CO. The latter has received 24 feet of snow (in places over the last 2-3 weeks) that has already caused large-cale disruption, loss of lives, and misery to many. However, you don't hear anyone begging FEMA for assistance nor do you see anything on the media about how the wonderful people here have coped with this natural disaster.
Re: the people of LA, I just think old habits (lack of self reliance and a desire for handouts) die hard.
Hanging Killers seems to stop them from killing....Got it, Nagin?
City Hall is a good start!
Ditto on the Quagmire but I thought everyone had gotten out.
Are the insurgents still there?
LA is a perfect petrie dish of SOCIALISM and what it does to people.....it seems.
Mogadishu on the Mississippi.
The only arrests made this year for any killing has been seven cops...............
Not all of it.
What did these people expect when they re-elect an idiot for a mayor and a thief for a congressman.
The problems in chocolate New Orleans started 40 years ago when the government took over the family unit. It continued in the 1970s when elitist blacks took over control of the city.
The good families have long left for Chicago and California. The Democratic black elitist began their assent 30 years ago to being Redwoods amongst the shrubs. It's hopeless and "they" know it.
LOL. Will the NY Times leak this?
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