A Blockbuster Report [New Orleans was already MURDER CAPITAL of the US]

Gambit Weekly ^ | 2 - 10 - 04 | Allen Johnson, Jr.

[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.

[patriciamary]

It one free ride time and time again,and it's not going to stop.

[uncbob]

How much of that trash has now been exported to TEXAS

[Maximilian]

And for God's sake, let everyone realise one true fact: this is nothing to do with race, and everything to do with culture.

I've never seen a clearer case of someone saying, "Who are you going to believe -- me or your lying eyes?"

I think I'll continue to believe my eyes, despite your proclamation of a supposed "one true fact."

[King Prout]

And for God's sake, let everyone realise one true fact: this is nothing to do with race, and everything to do with culture.

I've never seen a clearer case of someone saying, "Who are you going to believe -- me or your lying eyes?"
I think I'll continue to believe my eyes, despite your proclamation of a supposed "one true fact."

You know, that's the most open admission of racial bigotry I've ever seen on Free Republic.

I was considering treating you to an explanation of the demographics of the situation, but I figure: why waste the effort?

It suffices to say that your eyes are not lying, but the data filters resident inside your mind are doing a wonderful job of deceit.

[rdb3]

So you are indicting each and every American black person, right?

I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.

[cmotormac44]

will that be shifting the crime rate to the places where the refugees put down new roots?---if so, Lord help the cities and folks who have opened their doors for the future, after all the 'gang bangers and druggies' had to come from somewhere--you will still have the seem welfare, project class people like the mother with 5 kids and no fathers around---look at the statistics of NO and unwed mothers under 15 to see where they are going-

[King Prout]

that Maximum Loon has me irked.
If it actually WAS a matter of race...
let's see, now...

100,000 people were stuck in New Orleans
almost 100% of them are black...

logically, then, going by Maximum Loon's point of view, ALL of them would be engaging in violent criminal acts, and the city would by now be a floating necropolis with at least 50,000 murdered corpses floating in the stew.

As NOTHING like this is the case, his bigotry is self-evidently grossly incorrect.

I have long noted that evil, including the evil of racial animosity, shows a marked tendency to be banal and stupid.

it is "nice" to see that Maximum Loon isn't bucking the trend, eh?

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[najida]

Oh my my my,
now ain't THAT a tacky remark.

And you clearly no nothin' about culture,
and you sure as heck can't count!

[Maximilian]

that's the most open admission of racial bigotry I've ever seen on Free Republic,

My, if that simple statement of fact got you so upset, I can hardly imagine your apoplectic reaction when you see so much "bigotry" being posted minute-by-minute at FR like these within the last hour:

"Mogadishu on the Mississippi"

" had heard snippets of this...not from the U.S. media of course. I suppose its not racism worthy of media coverage when a small minority of whites are targeted for death from a huge majority of blacks simply for the color of their skin."

[King Prout]

is that your way of asking for an explanation of how you and others are misinterpreting the data, or is that your way of saying that you are not alone on FR in being a racial bigot?

[rdb3]

I asked if you were indicting every American black person. Are you?

I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.

[rdb3]

Sir, if you're going to ping me to your posts, I'd appreciate it if you'd answer my question.

Are your thoughts applicable to all American blacks?

I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.

[Maximilian]

Sir, if you're going to ping me to your posts,

You pinged me first. I was only performing the courtesy of including you in my reply.

I'd appreciate it if you'd answer my question.

I'm under no compulsion to answer irrelevant questions.

[rdb3]

I'm under no compulsion to answer irrelevant questions.

Thank you, sir. Nothing further.

I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.

[cyborg]

I don't see what's the big deal in answering. If you really have issues with black people then say so in an honest, non-epithet using way then you probably won't get banned. I think people appreciate honesty instead of dodging a question.

[185JHP]

I've read things about NOPD that indicate the people they hire add gross stupidity to evil character. There was a time when corrupt police would whack suspects on top of their heads with phone books, to elicit information/confessions. Causes pain, but doesn't leave visible bruises. Some people in the NOPD stupidly did it using hardbound city directories, caused bruises, and got caught.

[Darksheare]

Are you saying that it has to do with race?

[Maximilian]

I think people appreciate honesty instead of dodging a question.

Yeah, you would think so. But look at how dishonest King Prout and these other Freepers are being about the fact that there is an undeniable racial issue relating to the situation in New Orleans. The funny thing is that you'll see plenty of honesty and coming to grips with reality on dozens of other threads like this one: The Roots of Corruption: Lowering the Bar (OR WHY the N.O.P.D. has been SO DISMAL...thus far...) so why does this thread have to be such a notable exception? Why the lack of honesty and ostrich-like putting one's head in the sand?