January 4, 2006

A Tale of Two Cities

Katrina, not Dickens... From Mostly Cajun comes two links to two newspaper articles:
Thank you, Houston!
Hurricane Katrina has had a positive effect on Louisiana crime rates.
...New Orleans, where police say they have never seen things so quiet, with only two killings in four months.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the media made a very big deal about convoys of buses (no, not Mayor Nagin’s sunken fleet of school buses) hauling refugees to Houston where they were initially dropped at the AstroDome and eventually dispersed throughout the city.

We in Southwest Louisiana, knowing what sort of people had hung around New Orleans after the evacuation order, knew that there was a sizable criminal presence in that number of people, and so THIS ARTICLE comes as no surprise at all.
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.
Sniff!! I am SO proud of the publicity my state gets! the linked article is in a BRITISH newspaper!
Why am I not surprised... I bet the number in Houston would be a lot higher too except that the citizens of Texas are generally armed as opposed to those of the Democratic Workers Paradise of New Orleans. Posted by DaveH at January 4, 2006 6:17 PM
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