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Posted on 08/21/2006 7:42:32 PM PDT by mcg2000
During a visit to New Orleans today, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced reinforcements for federal law enforcement agencies operating in Hurricane Katrina's strike zone.
He said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will receive four more special agents in the New Orleans area to focus on gun crimes; the U.S. Marshals Service will receive four more deputies to track down violent fugitives; and the U.S. attorney's office will hire nine more lawyers to prosecute fraud and violence cases and receive 10 lawyers on a temporary basis to help with gun, drug and immigration cases.
"We are concerned about the recent increase in crime," especially violent crime in New Orleans, Gonzalez said after a tour of hurricane-damaged local law enforcement facilities. "Justice must be served in these extremely difficult times."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Send the law enforcement to the border. Send the bulldozers to New Orleans.
Fabulous.
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I see that whole "disarm the good guys" thing is still working out down there.
Police Chief Says He Exaggerated Post-Katrina Crime
The New Orleans police chief during Hurricane Katrina, Eddie Compass, says he unnecessarily "heightened people's fears" by repeating unconfirmed reports of out-of-control crime in the city during the aftermath of the storm, adding to the confusion caused by the disaster and potentially hampering rescue efforts.
"There were reports of rapes and children being raped. And I even got one report … that my daughter was raped," Mr. Compass says in the Spike Lee documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," scheduled to air on HBO tonight.
Mr. Compass resigned from his post as New Orleans police superintendent in September 2005.
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The place has always been a crime riddled city. The latest and greatest crime wave is probably from the invaders and they need to be rooted out. What a tradeoff. Illegals doing jobs that NOLA people won't do. And never did.
New Orleans....the curse that just keeps on giving. sheesh!
A year and goodness knows how many millions $'s later and the State government officials are still sitting on their duffs waiting for the Federal Government to do their work.
Incompetence at it's highest. Just let the next hurricane that hits NO take care of it and wipe it out. It's become an albatross.
Mayor Nagin for President!
Cleanup on the bayou! or aisle 7......
Well that does not explain how the crime wave hit little Rock Arkansas since we took in a lot of evacuees...We have our own Mexicans, so they were not evacuees....
Houston too.....Actually, everybody within range.....
Interesting comment .. cities that have seen a rise in crime with curfews after Katrina are Houston, Jackson MS, Memphis, Baton Rouge and several smaller communities.
New Orleans was literally a cancer.
No question about it.....
I lived in Louisiana for several years, and can tell you your statement is right on. While this thread is about New Orleans, the entire state is a cesspool created by liberal/democratic control.
I also have family members across La., some in the New Orleans area and others in Lake Charles.
Too bad their beloved Edwin Edwards is in prison, he could have made some significant bucks off of this hurricane, as I'm sure most of the Dem politicians there are.
We have been trying to arrest them and get ICE ivolved they dont seem interested.
Hey I do feel bad about that we all do. The thing I tried to get across at the time was that the resonsible law abiding people had left and would return the idiots and criminals were the ones in the dome.
Feel free to shoot or jail them we wont care.
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