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Harry Lee: Murder down in JP, targeting high crime areas working (gotta see the photo)
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| February 6, 2007
| Staff
Posted on 02/06/2007 6:40:22 PM PST by mcg2000
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee said his controversial methods of cutting crime are working so far this year with three murders recorded in 2007.
Using a high-powered gun as a prop, Harry Lee defended his methods of combatting crime in predominately black neighborhoods.
Lee said that would extrapolate to an average year in Jefferson Parish following an unusually high number of murders in 2006.
He credits his use of more officers and armored vehicles in high-crime areas and he believes his plan to target, videotape and even stop people in those areas has paid off.
Im not targeting blacks. Im targeting bad guys, he said Tuesday. At the end of the day, everybody realizes that most of the people we will be targeting will be black.
Lee says the only thing that has changed is his wording. He said he will no longer refer to targeting blacks in high crime areas, but merely bad guys. But he added that the statistics show that most of the victims and criminals in Jefferson Parish are African-Americans.
There are a lot of good, honest, decent, young black people needing protection, and the only people they got to protect them is us, he said. If someone doesn't like that, I don't give a damn.
Lee said that just this weekend he arrested four people on drug and weapons charges in a high-crime west bank neighborhood and he says he is going forward with his aggressive plans.
The NAACP didn't like my plan. I said, Okay, you don't like my plan, we'll use your plan. They said, We don't have a plan. Well then shut up and let me do my job.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: gangs; nagin; neworleans; nola; welfare
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Using a high-powered gun as a prop, Harry Lee defended his methods of combatting crime in predominately black neighborhoods.
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:40:25 PM PST
by
mcg2000
To: DaveLoneRanger
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:42:06 PM PST
by
mcg2000
(New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad on The Red Cross.)
To: mcg2000
The NAACP didn't like my plan. I said, Okay, you don't like my plan, we'll use your plan. They said, We don't have a plan. Well then shut up and let me do my job. lol, I like that!
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:43:34 PM PST
by
Reagan is King
(Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it)
To: mcg2000
"He credits his use of more officers and armored vehicles in high-crime areas and he believes his plan to target, videotape and even stop people in those areas has paid off." It's what's needed.
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:44:12 PM PST
by
StormEye
To: mcg2000
I live in a low crime area that's predominantly white. However the few crimes that happen here tend to be committed by whites.
It only makes sense that crimes committed in predominantly black areas would mostly be committed by blacks.
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:45:22 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: Reagan is King
bookmarked..finally a John Wayne type ....woohoooooooo
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:46:00 PM PST
by
advertising guy
(If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: mcg2000
Im not targeting blacks. Im targeting bad guys. . . . At the end of the day, everybody realizes that most of the people we will be targeting will be black. . . . There are a lot of good, honest, decent, young black people needing protection, and the only people they got to protect them is us. . . . If someone doesn't like that, I don't give a damn. . . . The NAACP didn't like my plan. I said, Okay, you don't like my plan, we'll use your plan. They said, We don't have a plan. Well then shut up and let me do my job. I like this guy!
To: StormEye
"He credits his use of more officers and armored vehicles in high-crime areas democrat stronghold voting blocs and he believes his plan to target, videotape and even stop people in those areas has paid off."
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:47:16 PM PST
by
word_warrior_bob
(You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
To: Reagan is King
Sounds like the NAACP "got stupid" on him.
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:47:18 PM PST
by
unkus
To: mcg2000
I used to live in Gretna. Harry Lee is a great Sheriff. He is 100% no BS
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:48:18 PM PST
by
Hambone02
(USAF AMMO IYAAYAS)
To: advertising guy
Finally? This guy has been like this for decades. Jefferson Parish was a great parish to live in until Katrina. Then we were invaded by New Orleans...
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posted on
02/06/2007 6:52:53 PM PST
by
Hambone02
(USAF AMMO IYAAYAS)
To: cripplecreek
SHHHH!
You can't say that! /sarcasm//
If any crimes are committed anywhere in the USA,we are all supposed to assume a white (rich or poor) man is the primary suspect.
We really should change that assumption, because white women have a tenuous population lead, last time I checked the census.
So no matter what the actual crime victim says about the alleged perpetrator, the police should first search out and question first poor white women, then rich white women, poor white men, rich white men, and if that fails, perhaps the police will be allowed to question individuals who match the description of the alleged criminal.
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posted on
02/06/2007 7:01:12 PM PST
by
sarasmom
( War is not the most vile of the evils humanity commits . There is always apathy...)
To: mcg2000
WOO HOO!
Tell it like it is!
PC can go to hell! Get the JOB done, stop bitchin' about the wording, get er done! I LOVE IT!
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posted on
02/06/2007 7:03:03 PM PST
by
Danae
(Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
To: Hambone02
Finally? This guy has been like this for decades.
Yeah, Uncle Harry has been doing this for a loooong time! There's just no BS there.
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posted on
02/06/2007 7:10:55 PM PST
by
Filo
(Darwin was right!)
To: mcg2000
Isn't this the brother of Henry Lee, the forensic scientist?
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posted on
02/06/2007 7:13:14 PM PST
by
SuzyQue
(Remember to think.)
To: SuzyQue
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posted on
02/06/2007 7:18:30 PM PST
by
Hambone02
(USAF AMMO IYAAYAS)
To: cripplecreek
Everything you say , of course, is true. Trouble is that if you were a Republican politician and said that very thing, you would be drummed out of office. What a shame.
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posted on
02/06/2007 7:46:28 PM PST
by
fish hawk
(Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.)
To: mcg2000
To: smalltownslick
"You just gotta LOVE him"
You can love him, but just be aware that he is a powerhouse democrat.
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posted on
02/06/2007 9:15:27 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: mcg2000
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posted on
02/06/2007 9:18:50 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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