Katrina victims blamed for Houston crime

Yahoo/AP ^ | 8/14/06 | Paul J. Weber, AP

[manic4organic]

Let me be first to say...Duh!

[thulldud]

Go ahead and say it:

"Bush's Fault!"

[Puppage]

Katrina victims blamed for Houston crime

Hmmm. I wonder if that'll be mentioned in Spikes new HBO hit piece?

[SpinnerWebb]

We don't put up with it here. If you break the law, you're going to be prosecuted."

And if you break into MY house, you're going to be shot. No questions asked.

[Cyclopean Squid]

As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.

[battlegearboat]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[battlegearboat]

damn you!

[Skooz]

"Texas law, I don't want to say it's tougher, but we take these offenses very seriously."

Outside of New Orleans, so does Louisiana.

[Vision]

"Katrina victims?" They're the one who reelect corrupt racist politicians who aren't interested in levy maintenance. They're the one's who are destroying the fine city that took them in. We're the victims.

[Xenalyte]

Exactly.

My west-side neighborhood, which was formerly perfectly nice (and I have high suburban standards), is now a total ghetto. Thuggish kids wander the streets - usually the middle of the actual street, not the sidewalk that the cliche usually means - all day and night, most of them in a) basketball jerseys that are b) far too large. We hear gunshots every so often.

It's getting time to move.

[MarkeyD]

Like we couldn't see this coming 365 days in advance.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

A non-leftist headline would have read "Katrina Evacuees Responsible for Houston Crime"

[Vision]

The police should be allowed to crack down, start arresting them for jaywalking or loitering. Change the laws if necessary. I hate the way most government never reacts to something like this. If any city can do it, it's Houston.

[My2Cents]

Agreed. We have to stick with the original title, propagandistic as it is.

[Gantz]

"Eckels predicted the county's worst guests will go home once their federal assistance dries up."

Gee, who would have guessed that one?

[battlegearboat]

Houston was my home of record for twenty five years.

I had had enough by 1992 and moved on up to Oklahoma, Northeastern Oklahoma, and life is good.

I still miss certain aspects of living in Houston, but not enough to ever contemplate moving back there. I will visit from time to time. Most of my friends have moved to the coast or Hill Country anyway.

I was at the Astrodome on opening day and got to see the great Mickey Mantle hit the first homerun in the dome.

[LifeOrGoods?]

Katrina sent a lot of bad guys to Texas, as Houston is finding out.

Not to mention all the Mexican bad guys this city harbors. What a mess. If a city can't deport its illegals and lock up its criminals, it can't expect anything less than hell on earth.

[Arrowhead1952]

We hear gunshots every so often.

It's getting time to move.

That sounds like the problem we had in NW Austin. When a lady and her kid were killed, we moved within a few weeks.

[weegee]

Houston PING

This is MORE violent crime in an already UNCHECKED era of violent crime (that predated Katrina) in Houston.

Mayor Bob-White is running a money racket trying to get city police funds from the feds. Same as Mayor Bob-1 (aka Lanier) siphoned off Metro money for police.