Posted on 01/09/2007 8:46:01 PM PST by blam
Checkpoints to Combat New Orleans Crime
Wednesday January 10, 2007 4:01 AM
By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police plan to set up checkpoints beginning Wednesday to help curb a crime wave that has claimed nine lives since the start of 2007, Mayor Ray Nagin said, stopping short of imposing a curfew on this tourism-dependent city.
The checkpoints will operate between 2 a.m. and 6 p.m., when about a third of the city's violent crime occurs, and will target drug and alcohol violations as well as motorist insurance. The first one was to be held in a crime-ridden area of the city.
Nagin said the police force would also increase foot patrols, sheriff deputies would supplement the force, and authorities would increase the number of surveillance cameras in high-crime areas. Speeding homicide cases through the court system is also part of his plan.
``This city will focus on murders,'' Nagin said, flanked by Police Superintendent Warren Riley, District Attorney Eddie Jordan and others speaking at the bloodstained site of the city's first murder of 2007. ``We're drawing a line in the sand, and we're saying, 'We've had it.'''
A curfew had been opposed by the city's tourism leaders, who said it would further hurt businesses struggling since Hurricane Katrina. While Nagin did not declare a curfew, he said the message to citizens was to stay off the streets in high-crime areas and in early morning hours.
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Hey, are the "politically correct" Liberals in Congress going to redeploy our combat troops to New Orleans since we have no other enemies anywhere else in the world?
Stay off the streets in high-crime areas during early morning hours?
Excuse me? That's all anyone ever said the entire 22 years I lived in the surrounding area!
God, what a joke.
Quagmire. Re-deploy to Houston.
Fat boys don't commit too much crime. Give em free beignets and muffoletas.
What were the estimates after Katrina? That maybe one third of the Louisiana police force didn't actually exist, but somebody was pocketing their pay. At first it was thought that half the police bugged out before the storm hit, but then it turned out that most of those missing police didn't even exist.
Let's see, that was under the rule of Mayor . . . Nagin, wasn't it?
The good news is they're setting up checkpoints to catch crooks.
The bad news is they're staffing them with N.O. cops!
New checkpoints . . . increase foot patrols . . . supplementing the force? This is just needless escalation and will not solve the problem or reduce the violence. Teddy Kennedy just told me so. Perhaps we should just redploy the NOPD to Baton Rouge?
LOL.. Theft, rape and beatings, riots and other stuff will have to fall in line...
They have done as much damage to Houston as they have done to N.O. I say we send all the people that came from N.O. to Houston back, and raise the IQs of both cities!
Good idea! They gonna put one in front of Rep William Jefferson's house?
What happened to the Chocolate City?
I wish the left wing statist GOP Congress and president hadn't turned every airport into a gun grabbing checkpoint, but there you have it. It's only natural that the local governments start aping the federal. It's going to be interesting when we've spent years and years with all this civil surveillance and we get a president who is willing to go throught he FBI files of enemies (oops, that's nothing new). I do wonder how far the pendulum swings before people get fed up with it.
Ooops, wrong thread.
I never thought I a hurricane could have entertainment value, but The Thing is making daily news around here better than a Mel Brooks movie!
Checkpoints-yeah...all the gun toting thugs out for retribution will get rounded up that way!
Even a curfew( which I support, but which would send the 'negative message' that the city isn't safe!) isn't going to keep the bodies from piling up. Criminals don't obey laws.
Does Ray-Ray think a confrontation will go like this?--
Cop- "Stop, there's a curfew! You're in violation."
Thug-" Oh- I'm sorry, officer. I'll go home right away!"
What we need is the Marines. One soldier, per block, throughout the city, with orders to shoot to kill anyone asking for it.
That's the ONLY thing that will work. When enough of the thugs are dead, crime will decrease. It's come to that. The criminals, and those related to/supporting them, are the MAJORITY in N.O. now.
There is no way to 'educate','counsel' or 'wuv' these barbarians into people of conscience and morals. They must be killed in large numbers or they kill any society they infest. That's the ugly truth-and no one, believe me, NO one in authority in N.O., will ever be that harsh.
The thin veneer of tarnished civilization in N.O. has been forever ripped away by The Thing. What nature has not destroyed, the thug culture is.
Okay, so a Brit newspaper does a story an American won't do...???
That's been true of New Orleans since the early 60's at least! This is nothing new!
What? I think it was long before President Bush and the GOP Congress came along, that folks were prohibited from carrying guns on board an airplane, unless you are a Law Enforcement Officer!
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