I was just thinking yesterday that there had not been a news item that qualified for my WTF category lately. Then a pair of fetuses (feti?) went and got flushed down someone’s toilet or thrown down a gutter here in Algiers. Yea, that qualifies. Fetuses found in Algiers sewer line Interesting that the line only…
If It Bleeds
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…
Mr. Brown
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…
The 5,000
There was indeed something glorious that happened today. Some sort of victory was eked out by 5,000 people who took it upon themselves to do something, anything, to throw a monkey wrench into the machine of entropy that has gripped the city for decades. And I think we did win the battle. But the war,…
C’Mon Rise Up, C’Mon Rise Up
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.
Ire on the Internet
– Dr. Morris is mad as hell. – Jeffrey over Library Chronicles seems to be assuming the role of a Nawlins version of Alex Jones in his reactions to Thursday’s march. What’s more, he’s even being a bit smarmy about it. In this Adrastos post he readily admits he has no solution but continues to…
Linguistics and Logistics 1.5
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…
Enough.
Uninspiration
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…
Linguistics and Logistics
“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.