Katrina criminals more than double homicide rates in some Houston districts

[orangelo]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4153486.html

Citywide, Katrina evacuees figure into a spike in violent crime as victims or suspects in 59 of 262 murders between Jan. 1 and Aug. 26. Those crimes account for all of the increase in homicides over the same period in 2005.

Violent crime was up 3.6 percent in District 18. District 19 saw a 13.6 percent increase, and the homicide rate in District 20 jumped from five slayings between Jan. 1 and Aug. 14, 2005, to 11 over the same period this year.

Thanks alot chocolate city. Keep your CHL's valid and your steel handy if you live in or travel through Houston.

 

[Cousin Mike]

I love how people act like Houston was such a crime-free city before Katrina evacuees came... Get over it already.

And chocolate city is Detroit or D.C. - get it right, at the very least, if you're going to make those kinds of comments.

 

[orangelo]

Uh, because Nagin didn't get on national TV and say God wanted Detroit to be a chocolate city.

59 murders / 203 = 29% increase.

If you could find a mutual fund with a 29% rate of return you'd be filthy rich.

Maybe you'd be happier if we could convince those hoodlums to move to Ohio. The violent crime rate in Ohio isn't all that either, so by your logic that makes it ok if 20,000 or so gangmembers, carjackers, rapists and murders moved in.

 

[Cousin Mike]

Columbus isn't Houston, that's for damn sure... And Houston has ALWAYS had a terribly high crime rate as far as I know. Also, the article and title of this thread says "some districts."

Not the entire city as a whole.

Ray Nagin is an idiot... Detroit has been called "Chocolate City" for the better part of the last 80 years. Just tellin ya what I know to be true. Sorry if my first post came off as overly abrasive.

 

[longeyes]

Well, hey, NO has an "underclass" problem. What do you expect? Decades of welfareism plus the corrupt local and state governments add up to a less than ideal polity. We should learn from that.

I still think the Katrina clean-up could have been the spur to start turning things around down there using local labor and talent.

I'm afraid there are a lot of political miscreants who need to go.

I'm not defending lawlessness, but when you take a group of traumatized exiles many of whom were already marginal economically would do you expect?

 

[rev214]

I'm afraid there are a lot of political miscreants who need to go.

...and Nagin was reelected...
so much for "spur to start turning things around"...