Posted on 09/03/2005 6:42:17 PM PDT by syriacus
As the city's murder rate escalates, the NOPD is "bleeding police officers," states the new Police Foundation study.
The first major study of the New Orleans Police Department under Mayor Ray Nagin's administration promised to be what one source called a "blockbuster."
Requested by the mayor, commissioned by the private New Orleans Police Foundation and conducted by scholars at the University of New Orleans, the detailed report on NOPD's manpower crisis would, a second source predicted, "send shock waves through this city."
It didn't happen. Ironically, the police study, released on Jan. 8, became quickly swallowed up in a 24-hour news cycle of bloody crimes. [snip]
Last year, [2003] the report continues, the city had a murder rate that was nearly 10 times higher than the national average.
"New Orleans is facing a crisis: our police force is shrinking at the same time that our city has recaptured the distinguished title of 'murder capital' of the United States among major cities," the Foundation stated.
"We now have only about 1500 officers actually engaged in police work, down from 1700 three years ago. Not surprisingly, the reduction in police strength has been accompanied by steep increases in the number of murders.
A New Orleanian is now seven times more likely to be murdered than a New Yorker.
(Excerpt) Read more at bestofneworleans.com ...
Of course what this article doesn't tell us is that the root cause can traced back to 1) whitey and 2) Bush.
Memphis is close behind them.
The locals have know for years that New Orleans is the largest city in a corrupt third world country known as Louisiana.
Race-baiting, poverty pimps make terrible mayors!
the big easy.
In 2002, New Orleans had the highest homicide rate among cities of 250,000 population or more."
Let me see, low pay, idiot mayor, idiot police chief. New Orleans is a picture perfect democrat utopia.
terrible anything...
Yep. I bet crime has BEEN DOWN in N.O. since Monday.
NOLA had an absurdly high per-capita murder rate in the last three years I lived there ('92-'95), averaging more than one KNOWN murder per day, in a city of less than 500,000, mostly concentrated in exactly the same sub-demographic now making life Hell for those folks who are now being rescued from the flood: PROJECT RATS.
And for God's sake, let everyone realise one true fact: this is nothing to do with race, and everything to do with culture.
NEW ORLEANS -- Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.New Orleans residents are reluctant to come forward as witnesses, fearing retaliation. And experts say that's one of several reasons homicides are on the rise in the Big Easy as other cities are seeing their murder rates plummet to levels not seen in decades.
The city's murder rate is still far lower than a decade ago. But in recent years, the homicide rate has climbed again to nearly 10 times the national average.
"We're going in the reverse of 46 of the top 50 cities in the United States. Almost everyone is going down, but we're going up," said criminologist Peter Scharf. "There is something going on in New Orleans that is not going on elsewhere.
[snip]New Orleans has had such a problem with retaliation against witnesses -- including murder -- that the district attorney's office took the unusual step of starting a local witness protection program.
Witnesses may also be reluctant to talk to police because of allegations of police brutality and corruption.
It sounds like any other city being run by gangs or "families," of any race.
It has to do with character. Animals are not capable of having high moral character. Has to do with CHOICES.
This is an amazing report. THanks for publishing it. Let's hope it makes the NYTimes.
Another good reason not to rebuild. I kind of think that a lot of the welfare people will settle in where they've been evacuated to. They have nothing to go back to now and will find more of their ilk in their new cities and just blend right in. Only problem might be welfare benefits but they'll probably make exceptions for hurricane victims.
in 1995, it could be worth your life to trust in the NOPD
I don't know what it was like, say, one week ago.
Animals do not behave in this manner.
Only people do.
People who have been raised in a culture of no personal planning, no personal responsibility, no personal duty.
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