Good times on the bayou. Seems New Orleans has racked up 10 murders in the first two weeks of the year. The folks are pretty pissed off, and they held a little protest march to let the mayor know. My first thought is that you probably shouldn't have re-elected Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin. But that's really neither here nor there, things would have gone to s*** regardless of who works at city hall. Excellent piece buy the Christian Science Monitor breaks it down. Just over 200,000 have returned to the city. (That makes the murder rate even more impressive. Probably approaching Baghdad or Bogota per capita.) The police department is losing about 17 officers a month. Best stat in the piece: in '03 and '04 the conviction rate for murder was about 12%. (Nationwide is 80%) All this prompts me to ask the rhetorical question: What's the threshold for the federal government taking over? Any precedent Athena? Ares
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