Posted on 09/22/2005 10:50:44 AM PDT by JZelle
NEW ORLEANS -- After the storm came the carjackers and burglars. Then came the shootouts and the chemical explosions that shook the restored Victorian houses in New Orleans' Algiers Point neighborhood. "The hurricane was a breeze compared with the crime and terror that followed," said Gregg Harris, a psychotherapist who lives in the battered area. As life returned to this close-knit neighborhood three weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck, residents said they hoped their experience could persuade political leaders to get serious about the violence and poor services that have long been an unfortunate hallmark of their city. "I think now it's a wake-up call," Mr. Harris said. After the storm, the neighborhood association had to act as the law enforcement and as an emergency-response unit as city services collapsed and the police force was unable to provide protection.
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They elect and re-elect their problems year after year.
Now much chance of improvement when the voters elect leaders who are sympathetic to criminals.
And after the law abiding citizens survived the storm and the flood and the looting, the government sent in the soldiers to DISARM them to make sure they never did it again.
Bulldoze the housing projects. Bulldoze the ratty little shacks. Enforce the building codes. That's a start, right there.
Clean up the streets.
Has anyone noted the same thing in their home town? Here in Decatur Illinois...a family posing as victims of Katrina were arrested and their children turned over to the Dept of "Human Family Services when it was found that they were not victims of the storm and that they stole over $300 from the shelter that took them in. I'm not making any assumption that this is wide spread, but even if it represents one percent of the those people claiming to be refugees from the storm it is a lot of people and it undermines what efforts are being planned for the truly needy in the future.
BTW their names are SAnjuana Huerta-
Sierra and her daughter Yesentia Alverez-Huerta and her boyfriend Wayne Lambert.
You have to remember that NO is below sea level and $hit flows downhill.
The first thing that has to be done is to get rid of the Residency requirement for Police Officers.
When you have a city with 80% blacks and 28% unemployment, and ten times the murder rate of any other US city and you can only hire residents, The class of candidate for the Police Department is severely restricted. They showed that when one third of the force bailed out. Lowered standards for hiring is what you get when you have a residency requirement.
Agree. Make them get jobs too! Teach them to be self sufficient. It will help out everyone in the long run.
Nothing new to us old short wave listeners from the Waco to Oklahoma City years of darkness.
As a NOLA native living in Atlanta for the past 10 years, let me just be frank: NOLA has been under control of black democrats for several decades. In other words, the criminals run the place. Criminals electing crinimasl. Most working-class and upper-class whites work in or near the city, then flee to Metarie or Mandeville after work gets out to avoid the animals in teh city who come out at night.
I love my hometown, still have family there and visit often, but the truth is that the place has become a crime-ridden, socialst welfare state run by left-wing blacks who want to exact revenge for crimes against their great-grandparents. They have destroyed a once-proud and once-great city.
"Make them get jobs" is easier said than done when unemployment was over 25%.
Put them to work rebuilding, is one thing to do, it seems to me. They can learn building trades as helpers.
New Orleans had the chance to become another Atlanta, but the white city fathers turned it down. "We don't want to be another Atlanta. We don't want a lot of white carpet-baggers changing the character of the community."
Well, New Orleans has been given another chance.
I hope they use it wisely.
"Make them get jobs" is easier said than done when unemployment was over 25%.
Put them to work rebuilding, is one thing to do, it seems to me. They can learn building trades as helpers.
No one said it was going to be easy. You have a good idea about making them help rebuild. I have said in different threads if they want New Orleans rebuilt, let them pay for it instead of taxpayers or like you said give them jobs doing it. But you and I both know that if they wanted to work, they would have been working and I don't think things are going to change any time soon with all the free money, food, housing and clothes they are getting.
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