Posted on 01/28/2006 8:48:07 AM PST by Seattle Conservative
A multilevel gang task force in Houston yesterday announced the arrests of eight hurricane refugees from New Orleans -- a group Houston police say is responsible for at least 11 slayings and numerous burglaries and thefts in the metropolitan area since November.
"We're talking about what appears to be a rivalry between two groups of individuals who were associated with two different housing projects in New Orleans," Houston police Capt. M.D. Brown told The Washington Times. "Their rivalry began several years ago -- certainly prior to Katrina -- and carried over to Houston."
He said the arrests came after "weeks of cooperation with Louisiana police and the FBI."
Houston's crime rate spiked noticeably in the final months of 2005, and police officials have attributed much of the increase to lawbreakers who moved to the city after Hurricane Katrina.
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Tensions have risen throughout the city's heavy crime areas since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, said one Houston police officer, who added, "some real bad boys have joined us and apparently have picked up where they left off in New Orleans."
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Some of the killings have been gang against gang, he said, but "when they run out of money, that's when innocent citizens get involved -- with carjacks, robberies and kidnappings."
Violence has risen not only on the streets but in the schools: Houston's district, which absorbed about 6,000 student refugees, increased security this month after reporting at least a dozen major fights involving displaced students. The worst was a near-riot in a high school lunchroom last month that ended in the arrests of 15 refugees and 12 local students.
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Nice catch.
So Houston "deserves" this for helping 100,000 people in need, the vast majority of whom are not "thugs", eh?
Go crawl back under your rock.
And more importantly in most of these cases, home of Huntsville Prison, and its room of Final Nap.
They ought to send the bill for incarcerating these guys to NOLA.
Some perhaps, but a lot of Texans, of all genders and ethnicities, will be taking out NO thugs as well. Saving the state a bunch of money and time in the process. Defense of self and others is not only allowed in Texas, it's encouraged and celebrated.
These bad boys are going to find out that Texas does have and enforces the Death penalty for murder. That won't get their attention immediately, but eventually they'll get the message.
It's time for those Texans who have been foolish enough not to pack heat to START PACKING.
Colt Auto. Cal. 10 mm. We all pack heat down here.
S&W .357 mag in the car and Beretta .40 in the house.
--Thats what I was thinking. They are their criminals they unleashed on an unsuspecting society.
Yup, they got the dead eyes of one completely taken over
by ATTITUDE. BAD ASS ATTITUDE. Not one of those pairs of eyes will every twinkle, unless it's about to watch somebody die, or give up his wallet, or car, and THEN die.
Ping to you in case you haven't seen this.
Thanks for the ping...I hadn't seen it.
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