Violence prevails to an even greater extent than before Katrina.
And no, it's NOT George Bush's or the federal government's fault.
Excerpt:
"Since Katrina, things have gotten so bad that New Orleans’s only effective criminal-justice presence has come from outside the city.
Early this year, the Department of Justice gave federal agencies in New Orleans extra resources, including nearly three dozen new agents and attorneys, to get criminals off the streets by bypassing the local justice system altogether. The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms have embedded agents with NOPD officers in some crime-ridden neighborhoods, and they take suspects into immediate custody if it looks as if a federal crime has been committed—carrying an illegal weapon, say, or peddling a rock of cocaine."
Mayor Nagin's Chocolate City has shown the rest of the US it's true colors. Why am I not surprised.
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