[SwinneySwitch]

"Their (justice) system was broken long before Katrina," said Sgt. Harris, of the Houston homicide division.

[LA Woman3]

"They will realize there is a chance of doing serious time in Texas and that they'd better go back to New Orleans," he said.

Don't mess with Texas!!

[seastay]

Gangs are rampaging thorough US cities, with murder mayhem, black market dealings, and vandalizing neighborhoods for the purpose of terrorizing local communities with no control in sight, meanwhile the press and Democrats and focuses in insurgents in Iraq doing the same for purposes of discrediting the president while the Republicans remain sighted on homeland security for the interior of the US for purposes nobody knows.

[vetvetdoug]

The crime rate in Houston has risen due to the Katrina evacuees but look at the bright side, there are more Democrats in Harris County!

[LA Woman3]

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl021706khcrimes.36cfb86e.html

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Among the evacuees sought by police is 23-year-old Jerome Hampton. He is a suspect in the Dec. 28 slaying of Steven Kennedy, who police say was killed in revenge for the 2003 murder of New Orleans rapper James "Soulja Slim" Tapp.

Two other evacuees, Richard Foster, 17, and Ricardo J. Irvin, 18, are accused of shooting two evacuees Feb. 6 to rob them of their money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. One of the shooting victims died.

Robert Helmstetter, 20, is suspected of killing his friend and fellow evacuee, Freddie Magee, on Feb. 9 in a dispute about money, police said.

The fifth suspect, Michael T. Mabon, 22, is charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon in a Jan. 23 home invasion of an evacuee, who was shot as he was stripped him of his FEMA money.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Each and every Liberal in Congress would EAGERLY volunteer to help the Houston PD apprehend the Katrina criminals. Compassion and tolerance is their middle name!

[PLK]

attributed mostly to New Orleans gang members who evacuated to Houston along with other hurricane victims.

Big surprise. Hopefully, the bleedin' hearts of Houston are getting their naive little eyes opened big and wide over this one.

[libstripper]

There is no question about our integrity," Quinton [of the NOPD] said[.],?i>

LOL. Absolutely right. The NOPD had no integrity. How else could they have had all the crime and gangs they did?

[FreePaul]

The Houston police department is suffering from years of neglect and corruption in the city administration and top levels of the department. They don't have nearly enough officers and those they have are not being used effectively. The police chief is trying to force people to install cameras to monitor crime in their areas. Monitor crime, not prevent it by patroling the streets but watching it happen and making a record. I feel saver already.

Residential areas and businesses in Houston have to hire private security, usually off duty police officers, to patrol if they want any crime control. While there are many dedicated officers on the street in Houston they have often been restricted by an an administration more interested in "social issues" than in crime control. Katrina has infected Houston with some of New Orleans' problems but that is largely a result of the way the city administration chose to deal with a newly introduced criminal element. They would rather be viewed as charitable than tough on crime.