Murder Making a Comeback in New Orleans

AP via Yahoo ^ | 5/9/06 | MARY FOSTER

[GeorgiaDawg32]

NEW ORLEANS - Jane Anderson misses the old days — the days right after Hurricane Katrina when National Guardsmen with rifles roamed the street outside the New Orleans shop where she works. The days when there weren't many people around and crime was down sharply.

"I know it's still pretty safe," Anderson says. "But it doesn't feel that way. We're hearing about more things happening, more murders, more bad guys returning."

Murder is making a comeback in New Orleans.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I did a title search and didn't see this posted. If it's a duplicate, I apologize..

[mtbopfuyn]

But chocolate makes you feel so nice you couldn't possibly commit a crime.

[Caveman Lawyer]

Jane Anderson misses the old days — the days right after Hurricane Katrina when National Guardsmen with rifles roamed the street outside the New Orleans shop where she works.

You know, things must have been pretty bad before the hurricane to be nostalgic for a military lockdown. Maybe it's time to rethink a few of those liberal policies.

[ScottfromNJ]

Looks like things are getting back to normal.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

it's what Nagin said he wanted..a return to normalcy..

[caisson71]

How can Nagin remain in office without victims? More crime means more money from whitey, it's that racist Bush's fault, America owes them because of slavery which was long ago resloved and none of us alive today had any involvment in promoting or operating. Facts don't matter as it doesn't have anything to do with racist attitudes, attitudes that have financial gain.

[Rte66]

Yep, now they're just beating each other senseless here in Houston and only killing 1-2 a week. Looks like we did get rid of a few of them who went back home.

[Richard Kimball]

I lived there for two years. It felt safer in Haiti.

[Ron in Acreage]

During the mayoral debate, Nagin said he wanted "all" NOers to return, even the murderers, pimps, whores and drug dealers. Looks like a Nagin voter is on the lam.

[Ron in Acreage]

Dark chocolate and milk chocolate don't mix well. Probably just typical chocolate on chocolate crime.

[Joe 6-pack]

New Orleans has been a den of thieves, murderers and pirates since its very inception....something about the lowest of humanity seeking their natural elevation. It will change only when the city is swept to sea.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The city had 30 murders this year through April. That is less than half of the 81 recorded during the first four months of 2005. But New Orleans' population these days is less than half of what it was before Katrina.

Also, while there were only 17 murders in January through March of this year, there were an alarming 13 slayings in April. That is the most for any month since the Aug. 29 storm, though still well below the monthly average of 22 in 2003 and 2004.

And May has gotten off to a violent start with three slayings, including a shooting that followed an argument in a Bourbon Street bar early Tuesday.

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Looks like a monthly rate of 14 before Katrina, zero in the three-four months after (from my recollection of a report of the first post Katrina murder), 6 per month in Jan-Mar 2006 (about the same rate per population compared to before), and 13 per month in April (same gross rate as before, double the per population rate.)

[Political Junkie Too]

But chocolate makes you feel so nice you couldn't possibly commit a crime.

It must be the kind with nuts in it.

-PJ