Looter Guy doing fine at last report.
Posted on 06/19/2006 9:27:08 AM PDT by marshmallow
NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin asked the governor Monday to send National Guard troops to patrol his city after a violent weekend in which five teenagers were shot to death.
City leaders convened a special meeting to voice outrage after the killings Saturday in an area near the central business district.
"If we don't have wind knocking us down, we have shooters knocking us down, and that's unacceptable," said City Council President Oliver Thomas.
The shootings brought this year's murder toll to 52, raising fears that violence was back on the rise in a city that had been plagued by violent crime even before Hurricane Katrina drove residents away last year.
Saturday's incident was one of the bloodiest in this city's turbulent history.
Nagin asked the governor to send up to 300 National Guard troops and 60 state police officers to patrol the city. The City Council said it also would consider increasing overtime for police to put more officers on the street.
Glorious times in the Chocolate City.
Oh, where to start...
Gads. At least he's asking for help. But it's pretty pathetic that his city needs to be put under virtual martial law simply to be functional.
"SchoolBus" Nagin gets his wish! N.O. back to "normal'.
Where's Pork Chop Jackson and Sharptongue when you need them?
Maybe he should look at the qualifications of the people they are hiring to do that job in the first place.
Looter Guy must be getting bored.
This is BS. Nagin wants the State to pick up the tab for law enforcement.
Probably keeping their heads down somewhere.
QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!
I guess it's not Swiss chocolate.
And to be able to blame someone else when there's further trouble.
My personal perception is that N.O. would be a lot farther along toward recovery if the govt had gotten out of the way and let the private sector do the work.
wanna start a pool on how long before it will be declared "Bush's fault!"?
The "leaders" in N.O. had their chance to tell the criminal element evacuated during the storm that they weren't welcome back, and enforce it. But they sat on their hands for the better part of a year, so the opportunity was lost. That, and Nagin's shameless "Chocolate City" pandering, have lost the battle. It appears as if N.O. will be no less a cesspool going forward than it was before Katrina. How sad.
How come the National Guard can patrol a city without running afoul of the posse commitatus provision, but we're told it can't patrol our porous border with Mexico?
Looter Guy doing fine at last report.
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