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Evacuee- packed Houston sees jump in crime
The Times-Picayune ^
| January 02, 2006
| Trymaine Lee
Posted on 01/02/2006 11:53:19 AM PST by Founding Father
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Maybe we SHOULD rebuild New Orleans and turn it into a 400,000 inmate prison.
To: Founding Father
You mean like Escape from New York?
To: Founding Father
Shhhh, don't mention that most of these evacuees are low income blacks - that would be racist.
To: Founding Father
Yep! Put concertina around the whole city.
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posted on
01/02/2006 11:56:57 AM PST
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
To: Founding Father
Better file this under "W" for "Whodathunkit".
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posted on
01/02/2006 11:58:23 AM PST
by
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: Founding Father
Not a bad idea. I just wish there was some lone island in the middle of the ocean where felons could be airlifted to and dropped off.
To: Founding Father
The murder rate is up 25 percent since last year and up 70 percent in December alone WOW!
Maybe we SHOULD rebuild New Orleans and turn it into a 400,000 inmate prison.
You've got a good point!
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:01:11 PM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
To: Fruit of the Spirit
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:03:16 PM PST
by
Klatuu
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Better file this under "W" for "Whodathunkit".
or perhaps under "W" for Dubbya done it!
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:04:06 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Founding Father
I took the time to read the entire article. What I read was that, yes, homicide is up in Houston, and yes, it's in the low-income areas that are already a bed of crime and homicide and drug action. But in the same breath, they say that overall crime is DOWN 2% from last year to this year. What does that mean?
Madison, WI did this, too. We took in evacuees and put them in the cr@ppiest, worst part of town. And then left them there to basically fend for themselves, though for some reason the evacuees that came to us are behaving themselves; our crime rate isn't up in those neighborhoods. (I think we have 400 or so people here from NOLA.)
Just because people are poor and uneducated, doesn't mean they're criminals. This article is really making a stretch and promoting stereotypes all the way around.
Just my observation, after reading the entire article.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:11:11 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Founding Father
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At the time the mass migration from NOLA to Houston was going on, I recall reading an article in which some hot shot politico in Houston was shooting off his mouth about how happy Houston was to be able to offer refuge to the evacuees.
I commented then that they should wait until the evacuees show their true colors.
Looks like that's happening.
Gotta feel sorry for the non-evacuees living in Houston that have to put up with this.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:11:26 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Article posts of just one or two sentences do not preserve the quality of FR. Lazy FReepers be gone!)
To: Founding Father
Who didn't know this would happen,I know we must keep giving them more!
To: Founding Father
In area motels and clustered apartment complexes, where people are living in stacked dwellings that rent for as little as $199 a month, police said tension is rising as former evacuees begin planting new roots. Damn! A one bedroom in da ghetto in the NYC area will cost you $850 a month.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:12:47 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
To: steel_resolve; Smogger
You mean, Texas's problems are not all caused by illegal aliens?
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:13:18 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
To: Founding Father
2,000 sex offenders from New Orleans are wandering around out there somewhere. The dope dealers from New Orleans arent working for real work they are out looking for new product suppliers and buyers , This is bound to be cutting into Houston's entrepeneurs business. Prostitutes have to work no matter what city they arein.
These people who were criminals to begin with are not going out of business , they will just be relocating.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
We took in evacuees and put them in the cr@ppiest, worst part of town. And then left them there to basically fend for themselves
NO, we gave them TEMPORARY housing and job opportunities, now they need to make a life for themselves, either here or elsewhere. Or perhaps go back to their homes in LA and rebuild what they have lost. It was never meant as a welfare state transfer.
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:35:11 PM PST
by
txroadhawg
("Stuck on stupid? I invented stupid! " Al Gore)
To: Founding Father
You can take people out of the ghetto, but........
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:36:40 PM PST
by
tracer
To: Fruit of the Spirit
Therte is such an island. It's named Oahu....
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posted on
01/02/2006 12:38:44 PM PST
by
tracer
To: tracer
No, it's populated. I seek something deserted or abandoned. ;-)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
We took in evacuees and put them in the cr@ppiest, worst part of town. And then left them there to basically fend for themselves, Of course they have to fend for themselves. Who else should do it? The American tax payer? Didn't they fend for themselves in LA? They were given shelter and a chance to start a new life, the rest is up to them, or do you think they should be given living accomadations for the rest of their lives because they had a temporary tragedy?
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posted on
01/02/2006 1:26:53 PM PST
by
calex59
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