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in fact, I think they would be more under the microscope.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. After the storm, the New Orleans PD and DA's office suffered a series of scandals, including an incident where the suspect in a shooting of an NOPD officer hid for a while in the DA's own house (he was a friend of the DA's girlfriend or some such thing).
The local court system is an absolute mess, and people still get away with murder due to raw prosecutorial incompetence.
I know a guy who was the SAC (special agent in charge) of the FBI there and he resigned when he saw the way it was down there. hopefully jindal is as good as some say.
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I wouldn't be too sure about that. After the storm, the New Orleans PD and DA's office suffered a series of scandals, including an incident where the suspect in a shooting of an NOPD officer hid for a while in the DA's own house (he was a friend of the DA's girlfriend or some such thing).
The local court system is an absolute mess, and people still get away with murder due to raw prosecutorial incompetence.
Aye, maybe. I personally would be interested to see if there is a correlation. Texas took in quite a bit of people from that and many stayed rather than going back. I wonder how many were crime oriented people and if it had any relation to crime increases.
poverty breeds crime. the poorest people were displaced, and therefore, I would venture that they brought a lot of crime with them. I look at some of the things that have happened recently, like people complaining about rations they never received. I mean, are we not going on three years now? when the hell are they going to get it together and realize that life isn't a free ride.
poverty breeds crime. the poorest people were displaced, and therefore, I would venture that they brought a lot of crime with them. I look at some of the things that have happened recently, like people complaining about rations they never received. I mean, are we not going on three years now? when the hell are they going to get it together and realize that life isn't a free ride.
Good question, but then some would rather work very hard to get things for free while others work very hard to earn it themselves. It makes no sense.
new orleans is a notorious crime city, and crime is decreasing. I also heard that jindal has played a good part in the renewal of the city.
Gov Jindal seems to be fantastic . I have heard great things from ALL groups in New Orleans . However he is dealing with easily the worse Dem Mayor that has ever walked the earth the most inept human being in politics.
Yes Mayor Nagin and a GVNR can only do so much for a city when the Mayor is truly useless .
The worse Dems are found in New Orleans and the worse Reps here in South Florida IMO.
New Orleans will only recover so far while Nagin is running things .
they had the opportunity to vote nagin out, but they didn't. I grew up in DC. our mayor got caught on camera, smoking crack, with a hooker, and got reelected. he is beloved in the city. it's freaking pathetic.
Hey man. If you've got something to say, why don't you just say it?
i will take that as an invitation to speak.
jessie jackson has already spoken in detail on what he thinks is goin on in NO and what needs to happen. now, if the former aide to martin luther king, gets shouted down and name called, what will they do to me? i'm not even a member of the club.
I just had this conversation with a guy who used to DJ for me who left NOLA days before the hurricane. And at the barbershop last week, and at the car wash days later.
It seems that those with the desire (and willingness to do the required work) to do better - did better. NOLA was already pretty messed-up during the good times. Their problems were just exasperated in the bad. I think that the situation exposed a flaw in the Government's practice if cultivating dependency.
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