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But for the second time in two days I heard a black resident of NO apologize to the nation. After he was taken from the Super Dome they asked him how he felt and he said he was ashamed to think that the people of his city would shoot at those trying to rescue them.

Another guy yesterday got off the bus in Houston and said, Thank you President Bush.

You don't have to be too discerning to see some of the stuff that's going on and realize it's just inner city normal problems.

The shootings and the rapes keep getting harped upon, but unfortunately, they're normal for NO.

Here's an article from August 2005 about NO crime rate, and I'm not sure what to make of the last paragraph, maybe it's talking about vigilantes:

Despite murder rate, crime down
NOPD statistics show 11 percent decrease
Saturday, August 20, 2005
By Walt Philbin

The New Orleans Police Department released statistics Friday showing that murders rose 7 percent in the first half of the year over the same time last year, but violent crime in the city was down 4 percent, and total crime dropped 11 percent. The drop in crime is even more pronounced in the second quarter of the year alone, when crime in every category, including murder, was down.But in the past six weeks, the murder rate has increased even more, rising 12 percent over the same time last year, from 171 at this time last year to 192 as of Friday, police Superintendent Eddie Compass said.

Preliminary information from an FBI study on the city's crime rate, which will be finished this fall, said much of the rising murder rate is due to the street justice that occurs when the public believes the court system isn't doing its job.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1124521075239200.xml