Here you go
Posted on 12/31/2005 7:30:02 PM PST by police
This is to let everyone know how the Katrina evacuees are spending the last day of 2005.
It's still far, far, far, from everybody.
It's been played up by the media, because its scandalous and therefore has high entertainment value for news stories.
I am not saying that there aren't bad folks from New Orleans. I am saying that people here have been talking that all New Orleans had were bad people.
You clean out the poor centers of any big city and dump it elsewhere and see the stories the press will generate.
My family, which has nobody on welfare, had three families wiped out and four families with damaged homes. They are all working except for one who was my SIL's mother, and who is too old to work, have not made any news story and will be like all the other good, hardworking people in the NO area. Some have left for greener pastures and will not come back, but many others are there working on their homes, working on their businesses, and are nowhere near the scandalous, evil monsters people talk like everybody in New Orleans is.
What do you think would happen if you displaced the poor in Houston? Or Chicago? Or LA? Or New York?
Lots of stories of violent behavior - but it certainly wouldn't be true of everybody. Or even most of them.
A bit of wisdom to bring in the new year. Thank you, and Happy New Year. I hope this one is better for all of you.
Murders in the greater Houston area are up 40% since just November thanks to these wonderful "guests" of ours - plus lots of other crimes are up - and not just in Houston but other Texas cities that took in 10s of thousands form NO.
Sorry to hurt your feelings but a huge percentage coming out of NO are indeed thugs and criminals....
I didn't say you didn't get any bad folk.
I said it was wrong to say all the people who came were bad folk.
I have family in Houston, too. A lot of family. I lived there myself.
I said: If you displace the inner cities of any major city you would get similar stories.
Houston does not have pure hands either. It's got its share of crime and urban troubles. If you displaced large numbers of Houston people to Dallas and Austin and and Shreveport and Oklahoma City, there would be stories about how bad those Houstonians were, because in the mix of people who left there would be a number of the type who do that sort of thing, and you would know it's not true of everybody because it's only some.
"Sorry to hurt your feelings but a huge percentage coming out of NO are indeed thugs and criminals...."
Utter baloney (putting it politely). When you have 300 thousand displaced New Orleanians, you are bound to get reports of criminals up to no good. However, you owe an apology to the 299,000+ New Orleanians who are just trying to get their lives back on track. Since you failed to tell the whole story, let's not forget that crime in Houston pre-Katrina far exceeded anything that ever took place in New Orleans at any time.
You mean just because our population in Houston is much larger than NOLA's was? I'm not so sure about the per capita's, though.
S O P in New Orleans. Y'mean they don't do that everywhere? LOL
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To have the same per capita rate of crime in Houston as in New Orleans, you would have to start with approximately four times as much crime [raw numbers, not per capita] in Houston as in New Orleans.
Statistics prior to Hurricane Katrina put the population of Houston at approximately 1,953,631 compared to approximately 462,000 population for New Orleans.
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