RSSNew Orleans Post Katrina … Same Old Same Old
J.J. Jackson* | February 20, 2007
The Big Easy is still one of the nation’s most dysfunctional cities and one of the nation’s most violent.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans, the “Big Easy” city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.
Annual Mardi Gras celebrations unfolded without incident this weekend, but fear of the rampant blood-spilling and its threat to the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina are constant topics of conversation.The homicide total for a still-young 2007 climbed to 27 on Saturday with the dead of a man shot at a nightclub on Friday.
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New Orleans has had one of the United States’ highest per-capita murder rates for years, but the current violence has added to insecurities in a city worried about its future.
No wonder most of the people that lived there before Katrina have left. But it looks like most of the criminals have returned.
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It must be awful to hate your own countrymen so much. Truly sad.
ROFL!
Looks like we’ve got another cuckoo alert!
Now reporting on how crime/murder is (and has been for years) rampant in New Orleans is “hate”. No doubt doctorj votes … which is sad.
Only to a raving lunatic could the “truth” be “hate”.