Category: Haps

I had an 8 a.m. appointment this morning in the Carrollton area and had to drive through a disaster zone to make it. The whole area was out of power and the police and National Guard were directing traffic at major intersections. Driving down Carrollton Avenue towards the river, debris was all over the road…

From the New York Times on Jan. 19, 2007. Political leaders, worried about the loss of clout and a Congressional seat, press for people to return, but a smaller New Orleans may not be bad, some economists say. Most of those who have not returned — 175,000, by Mr. Stonecipher’s count — are very poor,…

Straight from CNN, Brad and Angelina are coming. That’s not news. Those who are celebrated by the commoners often take residence in Nola. And yes, we have all heard the comment that, “we must be a third-world country now.” And it’s funny, and I have said it myself and ha, ha, ha. That they are…

Two headlines on the front page of CNN right now: 9 murdered in 10 days, Shot dad held baby. You can imagine what the stories are about. There was a story about the march on the front page yesterday (it low-balled the attendence, calling us a crowd of 1,000). It was above the fold for…

Information on Wikipedia about former United States drug czar and one-time Houston mayor Lee Brown, who is being brought in to assist the New Orleans Police with our growing crime rate… Lee P. Brown It certainly looks like he has the chops but the “out-of-town Brown” stuff doesn’t sit too well with me. Though “out…

There have been days, days and days when I was ashamed to be a New Orleanian. But today will not be one of those days.

I overheard something yesterday that made me go hmmmmmmm. Superintendent Warren Riley continually cites the lesser number of police on the streets as contributing to the rise in crime in New Orleans. He states the number of cops before the flood as being around 1600 and the number of cops now on the street being…

Why do I somehow feel less than inspired after listening to Riley and Nagin’s press conference this morning? Could it be because there was a continuation of the “Linguistics and Logistics” rhetoric I wrote about yesterday? Where our leaders compare our crime rate to the rest of the nation even though ours is at least…

“Murder rates are up all over.” New Orleans Police Assistant Superintendent Steven Nicholas Times-Picayune – Dec. 2006 cite “I don’t think crime is out of control by any means. I think we have a very good handle on it. We’re not the Wild West and there are cities that wished they only had 150 murders.”…