My question is this, has the crime rate risen in NO the past few days or is this how it is on a typical day there and we just do not hear about it on the National News?
What dirty rotten animals. They should let some of these parasites drown.
Usually, the thugs confine their activities to Treme and the East side of the city. Now, the thugs have the whole city under siege.
It's never been exactly crime-free. In fact, crime-ridden is probably a fair statement about any given year.
Another point is that many of these are not exactly the cream of the crop of New Orleans' residents. They contain a very high percentage of the dregs. Ordinarily, there'd be enough decent folks to keep them in line. Now most of the decent folks among them are the old, and weak.
I keep thinking about that remarkably nice and brave black lady who was interviewed by Fox a few times while waiting to get into the Astodome.
I pray that she's OK.
there was always violense down there. my son went to school there and said you can't walk at night because they will jump you. Happened to his friends alot.
Since Eddie Jordan took over as the DA, crime has risen 4 fold. He has been absent since his first day on the job and continues to be as the crisis mounts.
GO TAKE BACK THE CONVENTION CENTER AT ALL COST!!!
Sounds like another day in the 'hood to me.
Excellent question! I believe the true crime situation
in most of out cities is not reported. It's deliberately
censored by the liberal news outlets and local governments.
Anecdotal evidence: In perhaps 1978 or 1979 or thereabouts, I was working for a major multinational corporation which held annual sales meetings for their top sales representatives at interesting tourist locations. The year in question, one of those sales meetings was held in New Orleans. The company would fly in their sales reps from all over the country (and other parts of the world, too), where they would be met at the airport and chartered buses would take them from the airport to the hotel that was the center for the company's meetings.
As I recall the story, there had been a severe rainstorm, with minor street flooding, and one or two of the buses had been temporarily stranded on a road between the airport and the hotel. What happened then was a tourist's nightmare, with armed men getting on the buses, and holding the passengers at gunpoint while their accomplices stole watches, jewelry, cameras, wallets and purses, and anything else of value that they could get their hands on.
I don't know whether or not there was any physical violence perpetrated on the passengers in that incident. I don't believe that it was an isolated incident, either. The criminal predator-vs.-prey culture that led to such an event 25 years ago is apparently still well-entrenched in New Orleans today, and probably has roots going back hundreds of years, which is why I am not all that surprised to hear of disgusting tales such as this one.
I don't know what it has been recently, but it used to run about one tourist a month killed. New Orleans has always been high on the per-capita murder rates, mostly friends and family type murders like any other urban area.
The crime doesn't really surprise me; the lack of response to it does. There was a guy on tv a minute ago calling from the Convention Center begging that the National Guard NOT be sent in.
Now they know the law cannot touch them..and so they are no longer restrained...from without
They were never truly restrained from within...
They are a mob...lustful, greedy, bloodthirsty.... If not stopped violently and soon they will grow in evil and in evil deeds
Look at Angola,Mogadishu and Mugabe's government..
Democracy is not meant for everyone..only those who have Christ's law written in their hearts..(whether they acknowledge Him as the source or not)
This is what the founding father's instinctively knew and tried to protect us from
...to destroy America simply fill it with those who hate God..
And a police state filled with corrupt police will emerge.
For even a police state filled with corrupt police is better than this..
Imagine giving such a people the vote and the power to make laws the rest of us have to live under?
The heart and soul of the democrat party too boot
imo
bout normal
"nawlins" is a toliette bowl and GOD should just go ahead and flush it...
The only people that love "nawlins" are freaks and freaks that have never been there!!! (but that is just my opinion)
Unfortunately, the latter is the correct answer.
Another post in the live thread said crime in NO is 10 times the national average on a good day.
On a "normal" day, they are not as concentrated together, and the police have better ability to get at them, so they behave better. What you're seeing is how the thugs become when they know they have the police outnumbered and cowed
A good reason for all law-abiding citizens to have firearms and a goodly supply of ammo -- because when it hits the fan, you WILL be on your own
NO has huge crime problem
and as we are learning , this tragedy has just given them more opportunity
some stayed just for this...no doubt
a target rich environment by urban thug culture standards
I wonder why there wasn't more of this in Lower Manhattan after 9-11?