New Orleans again nation's murder capital

[tombogan03884]

The lack of guns. Thats the problem!!!

No, actually La. has fairly reasonable gun laws, the problem is that you have a city of people to dumb to live above the water level, mostly living on Govt handouts and crime because they are to lazy to work even to keep from being flooded out, they preferred to steal from the local stores, and this collection of "citizens" is also saddled with the most corrupt Police Dept. in the nation, (they say the biggest gang in NO wears badges )
Ray Nogun got his "Chocolate City" and lo and behold it takes on the character of a 3rd world country.

[twyacht]

As liberal as NO is, it should be a nirvana, just like Detroit right? No poverty, no homeless, very little crime, just a great city.

George Carlin had a great skit on the city of NO and hurricane rules:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hurricane_rules.htm

and of course, the most important one: people in NO, and even our POTUS have looooong forgotten:

#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you want. McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop spooning off the people who are actually working for a living. President Kennedy said it best..."Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."


Maybe William Jefferson D-La, the one with the cool cash in his freezer, could pull some out and contribute.

[tombogan03884]

The reason Hispanics were hired for the jobs was becuase no one in NO was applying for them, tose lazy leeces were perfectly comfy in their free FEMA trailers.

[TAB]

I was there before and after katrina... the only diffrence, it smelled better afterwards.

[alfsauve]

FBI doesn't make it easy.   There pretty spread sheet only has raw numbers not per-capita.  And it's all laid out so neat it's not easy to re-sort.   When I get a moment I'll regurgitate it for them.

And where was Washington DC?   Is it less than 100k population?

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

So here's you top 25 in descending order by murder/100,000 residents.  [Washington DC not included]

64   LOUISIANA   NEW ORLEANS
47   MISSOURI   ST. LOUIS
37   MARYLAND   BALTIMORE
36   MISSISSIPPI   JACKSON
36   ALABAMA   BIRMINGHAM
34   MICHIGAN   DETROIT
30   LOUISIANA   BATON ROUGE
29   CALIFORNIA   OAKLAND
28   MICHIGAN   FLINT
27   CALIFORNIA   RICHMOND
25   MISSOURI   KANSAS CITY
25   CONNECTICUT   HARTFORD
24   OHIO   DAYTON
24   NEW JERSEY   NEWARK
24   OHIO   CLEVELAND
23   PENNSYLVANIA   PITTSBURGH
23   PENNSYLVANIA   PHILADELPHIA
22   OHIO   CINCINNATI
21   ARKANSAS   LITTLE ROCK
20   NEW YORK   ROCHESTER
20   TENNESSEE   MEMPHIS
20   GEORGIA   ATLANTA
19   FLORIDA   MIAMI GARDENS5
18   FLORIDA   ORLANDO
18   ILLINOIS   CHICAGO

And here's your bottom 25 [zero doesn't mean zero murders only that the rate/100,000 was less than 0.5]

1   TEXAS   LEWISVILLE
1   CALIFORNIA   MURRIETA
1   COLORADO   ARVADA
1   CALIFORNIA   COSTA MESA
1   UTAH   PROVO
1   CALIFORNIA   ORANGE
1   COLORADO   LAKEWOOD
1   KANSAS   OVERLAND PARK   
0   IDAHO   BOISE     
0   CALIFORNIA   IRVINE   
0   NEW YORK   AMHERST TOWN   
0   MICHIGAN   ANN ARBOR   
0   WASHINGTON   BELLEVUE   
0   CALIFORNIA   ELK GROVE   
0   ARIZONA   GILBERT   
0   CALIFORNIA   ROSEVILLE   
0   TEXAS   ROUND ROCK   
0   ARIZONA   SURPRISE   
0   WASHINGTON   VANCOUVER   
0   UTAH   WEST JORDAN   

[TAB]

elkgrove is not to far from me,  90k people, they have had 18 murders since jan1...

[deepwater]

are we forgetting Katrina? when the N.O. fuzz took guns away from the citizens? less guns.... also, I work with a guy from the area, he didn't return because he liked it elsewhere. safer, less hoodlums, gangs, you know, Texas... 


and jobs in N.O.? a butt load of construction. some neighbors (from when I lived in Texas) haven't returned to Texas because of all the work.   DUH!!!!

[deepwater]

0   TEXAS   ROUND ROCK 

  my old home!!! 

[Texas_Bryan]

I worked retail when the hurricane hit, they were asking for volunteers to go work our stores in New Orleans and the other areas because they couldn't find anyone there that wanted to work.