Number of murders to mid-August: 192 - which annualises to 294 or 0.8/day.
Number of bodies found at Superdome after 6 days: 10 - of which three or so are widely reported as having died of thirst or pre-existing conditions of old age, and certainly more will have. And we don't know whether the 10 include two alleged to have been killed by police.
Number of corpses found at the Convention Centre: Gary Yonge, debunking rumours, says zero but other apparently eyewitness accounts differ.
There was certainly a lot of rumour-mongering, both among the refugees and by cops and in the media. It seems to me that some of the "we saw" accounts may turn out to mean "we all, we stuck here saw... someone told me".
So - not counting police killings - NO does so far appear to be in the ballpark of the background rate. (MH)
Do you have any confirmed estimates of the number of armed gangs? Because I think the military are now going to go in and kill a whole bunch of not-outstandingly-guilty citizens.
How many more or less innocent people have to die to make your leader look decisive? There is no reason to treat this situation as security emergency. It's a basic humanitarian emergency, the only reason it's a security situation is that that's all that the people at Homeland Security understand.
Meanwhile your massive miltary and admirable civilian volunteers are refused access by FEMA.What's going on?
FEMA were outstandingly competent when they had a cabinet seat. What happened to them? Why is it in your interest to let that happen? What are the unqualified political stooges up to. Are they refusing access to hide their own idiocy?