About 225,000 at last count. Enough to swing votes for the RATS!!
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 ...
Earlier this weekend I posted this thought. Now, I'll do it again:
This current tragedy isn't about race. It's about poverty, greed, heroism and nature.
"Not surprisingly, the reduction in police strength has been accompanied by steep increases in the number of murders."
..that's an interesting statement...I was under the impression that murder is a function of a lack of more values - not a lack of police (given that most police show up at the scene AFTER a murder).
Bears repetition!
I tend to believe that extraordinarily hellish events have merely revealed people's true hearts....some of those hearts are dark and cold and yes racist.
It hasn't been pretty.
Those who insist this is a racial matter cannot explain to me the plight of those blacks who were being robbed at gunpoint in their homes in New Orleans Tuesday and Wednesday night. Were those victims to blame for the crimes committed against them? They were black, just like the perps. How does the racist analysis "explain" this?
(Of course it can't.)
I go back to the LA Riots, what was the reaction of most of the blacks in South Central? "Why the hell aren't the police protecting us from these thugs." Of course the MSM would never tell you that.
An excellent point. I'd forgotten about that.
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.
well, yes, it can, given certain specific assumptions.
if one assumes that "the black race" is inherently cannibalistic, then black-on-black crime can be explained as a simple matter of strong cannibals snacking down on weak cannibals.
I am beginning to suspect that there are a few (I hope only a few) idiots here on this site who believe something very much along those lines.
you and me both.
Am I still on Free Republic?
About 225,000 at last count. Enough to swing votes for the RATS!!
When I lived in Mississippi, the black people I knew were some of the kindest people I knew. They may have been poor, but they were God-fearing, and they were more socially conservative than 95% of the population.
Now maybe times have changed since then, but I sure hope most black people share that. Always remember, the media thrives on sensationalism, God-fearing dignified people are "boring," they want to show the angry people.
Utterly, unconscionably despicable.
Utterly, unconscionably despicable.
And, I should point out, their memberships should be relentlessly hunted down and purged.
Either the media is selectively reporting and photographing the scene or the statement you refute is true.
The more we wish it away, the worse it will become.
We may well be to blame for having so long turned our backs.
In any case, the task at hand is to save what is left and decide what to restore; recriminations can be saved for later.
Opinions, especially reprehensible ones, ought continue to be protected unless we want to be of only one voice.
the media is without doubt selective about what images it broadcasts, and which stories it hypes.
because drama and violence "sells" they do not show the overwhelming majority of the almost 100% black refugees waiting peacefully and patiently, helping one another where possible, and generally behaving like good Americans.
opinions contradicted by both logic and fact should be ruthlessly derided.
Wrong, "professor." Some shit is beyond the pale.
They have the right as Americans to believe and say whatever they want. The First Amendment protects that. But I believe that I stand with management when I say that crap deserves no protection here.
What are you selling, some kind of half-assed diversity? As though we're enriched by the presence of people who believe this racist pap and make assumptions about an individual because he has the same complexion as a vicious gang predator in NOLA. Get a grip on yourself.
I live in a majority black small town in podunk South Georgia.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood.
I live in a predominantly POOR black neighborhood.
Most of my neighbors are good people.
There are a few who are jackals.
Yes, most of the jackals are black... those who aren't are illegal immigrants.
No, their representation in the population does NOT come anywhere near a majority.
This held true when I lived in New Orleans, even when I lived at 2222 Constance Street, right across the Jackson Avenue from one of the nastiest projects in New Orleans: The Annunciation Housing Project.
A small percentage of the residents there were criminals, thugs, crack-zombies, whores, gangsta-morons. The majority were good folks, no less kind and civil and honest than your average American.
The difference between these two groups was not one of race, as all were black, but one of CULTURE.
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