posted on January 2, 2006 12:24:05 PM new
All the more reason to ship them back to NO.
By Jacqui Goddard
(Filed: 01/01/2006)
The city of Houston is appealing for emergency funding to help to fight a huge crime wave following the arrival of refugees from hurricane-hit New Orleans.
The murder rate in the Texan city leapt by 24 per cent last year, with the toll for November and December up by 70 per cent on the same period in 2004.
There were 324 murders in Houston in 2005, compared with 263 in 2004. Of the 2005 tally, 51 occurred in November and December - up 21 on the same period of 2004.
The police department has not monitored precisely how many can be attributed to those evacuated after Hurricane Katrina, but says that at least 12 homicides in the past four months have involved evacuees either as victims or perpetrators.
While stressing that they cannot lay all the blame at the door of hurricane evacuees, the police chief and the mayor suggest that the influx of as many as 150,000 extra people has been a contributory factor.
The issue is highly sensitive as the majority of the hurricane's victims were drawn from New Orleans's black underclass.
Harold Hurtt, the police chief, said: "We are beginning to see more involvement in violent offences by the evacuees who came here from Louisiana."
Bill White, Houston's mayor, is now appealing to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for $6.5 million (£3.8 million) to help to strengthen his police department.
The city is experiencing an opposite trend to New Orleans, where police say they have never seen things so quiet, with only two killings in four months.
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posted on January 2, 2006 01:04:23 PM new
"The issue is highly sensitive as the majority of the hurricane's victims were drawn from New Orleans's black underclass. "
This is a big part of what's going wrong with this country.
The unwanted, unemployable poor were forced to leave their welfare-subsidized hovels in New Orleans. The fact that most of them are black means no one is allowed to talk about it intelligently because it might be "insensitive."
Oh crap, now I'm stating to sound like Neal Boortz.
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posted on January 2, 2006 02:39:41 PM new
Agreeing with Neal Boortz's isn't a bad thing. I read his website often....and often agree with what he says.
And I'm sure we'll be hearing more and more reports just like this from some more of the cities that took in those dependent on their government nanny.
We saw what happened right after the floods....all the looting...stealing that went on......doesn't matter what race they are....they're actions aren't those of law-abiding citizens.
posted on January 2, 2006 02:53:09 PM new
I am from Houston and you can log onto our local newspaper-Houston Chronicle and read about Katrina related crimes:
an old lady hired 3 Katrina victims to do some housework,they killed her,robbed her house and took off with her car.They were arrested.
Two Katrina men liked to dress as women when they left the house,one was found shot dead just outside her/his apt .
One young Katrina woman was found dead in her apt.
Latest,a family of 3,mom and dad and 14 years old son faced eviction notice ,one of them shot the others and they are all dead in the apt.
Gang wars broke out between New Orleans teenage girls and local blacks in Houston public school,adults got involved and encourage the girls to fight .
But Mexicans are now going to New Orleans to work,making good money.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on January 2, 2006 11:09:12 PM new
One of my best friends who lives in suburb of N.O. said that Houston would regret letting the evacuees in to Houston. He was a NO policeman for years down there and quit cause thats all they did was have killings all the time ( many every day no one heard about) and gang wars. He now says it is pretty nice down there not the crime like before- even with less people there is not the crime like it was. He said numbers was not the reason for the decline but the fact that most of the welfare and poor was gone along with the ones running from the police anyway. Plus ones coming back in or for first time are there to work not sit on their butts... This is what he stated couple days after the hurricane and just recently too.
I read his website often....and often agree with what he says.
