Louisiana's incarceration rate is No. 1 in nation

Times Picayune ^ | March 02, 2009 | Doug Simpson

[blam]

"Actually our “numbers” are probably much better than the Europeans now. Especially for the UK."

It's been some time since I read that data, so...

[blam]

"Louisiana also has one of the highest percentage of minorities of any state. It isn’t a coincidence."

Louisiana

* White persons, percent, 2007 (a) 65.1%
* Black persons, percent, 2007 (a) 31.9%
* American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2007 (a) 0.6%
* Asian persons, percent, 2007 (a) 1.4%
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2007 (a) 0.2%
* Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2007 0.9%
* Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2007 3.2%
* White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2007 62.3%

[CGTRWK]

Hard to say who has a rougher life there, the inmates or the horse under that corpulent cop.

[BBell]

I would not say that Louisiana has the highest percentage of minorities of any state, I would say Louisiana has the highest percent of one certain minority of any state.

[BBell]

We like to drink here but we don't like it to get out of hand. Drinking in public, at parades, in parks or what ever is fine. If it gets out of hand the Cops will thump you and everyone down here knows that. It's the ignorant tourist who think anything goes who are the worst. They come from states that only allow you to drink at home or in certain establishments and when they see how it is in some places here they go nuts, thinking anything goes. Then they get thumped, and arrested.

[BBell]

I'm not sure of the current demographics but for the first time in decades whites out numbered blacks in NOLA after the hurricane. Nagin was so worried that he had voters bussed in to vote for him, he could not let a white guy beat him could he? Anyway it will be interesting to see the next census results. If Bambi does not taint it that is.

[BBell]

I live one parish above Orleans and I can tell you our crime rate is a fraction of that in Orleans. The same can be said for all of the surrounding parishes. No one who wants to keep their job wants that crap flowing in their parish.

[RichInOC]

COPS goes to Ash Wednesday...

[cue Inner Circle]

“Bad boys!
“Whatcha want? Whatcha want?
“Whatcha gonna do-oo
“When da sheriff John Brown come f’you...?”

[dfwgator]

“It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint...the warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naïve. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and …Thank God we got penitentiaries!” - Richard Pryor

[DannyTN]

I grew up in Louisiana and I remember driving in Baton Rouge and every other car was swerving. There weren’t that many tourists!

Louisiana’s like to drink, not just tourists. Last I checked, Louisiana had the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the nation, despite the northern half being dry. It might not be dry anymore, we were losing that battle when I left.

The cops will thump Louisianas too. And sometimes when they thump them they get incarcerated and thus the high incarceration rate.

[DannyTN]

I will say this, I spent a couple of semesters going to all the cajun festivals. There is a big difference the closer you get to the cities in the drinking. The small town festivals drink too, but they don’t drink to excess. The closer you get to the cities, the drinking to excess goes way up. But that ain’t tourists, that’s just city folk.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Go ahead and say it. Louisiana has the highest percentage of blacks of any state. And, unfortunately, the number of felonies committed by blacks far exceeds their percentage of population. In fact the number of felonies and violent crimes committed by a very small number of blacks (generally young black men between the ages of 16 and 30, about 1-2% of the population as a whole) makes up over HALF of all violent crimes. And most of those crimes are against other blacks. Just like in Africa.

I guess you can take the black out of Africa, but you can’t take the Africa out of the black.