WTF is going on in New Orleans?

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

the criminals in australia must not have these:



 :thumbsup:

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

yes, old thread, but i was looking around and found a few articles that i figured melbourne would appreciate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8999837/

Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.

New Orleans residents are reluctant to come forward as witnesses, fearing retaliation. And experts say that is one of several reasons homicides are on the rise in the Big Easy at a time when other cities are seeing their murder rates plummet to levels not seen in decades.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/06/usa

Whatever the reason, 701-related laxity has become so common that New Orleans street hustlers have dubbed doing 60 days in jail for a killing a "misdemeanour murder." This was no exaggeration: in addition to the thousands of suspects being released under Article 701, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office secured just one conviction in the 162 murders committed in 2006. Worse still, the district attorney's violent offenders unit (VOU) which handles the city's most violent crime has recently been wracked by staff departures. Former prosecutors have publicly complained that they were forced to spend much of their time performing administrative tasks like photocopying.

[DanTheMan]

they should have knocked him out in jail and put a hidden mic on him, or maybe a small video camera (it cud be possible)
then they would have evidence when, not if, he kills another person

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

that evidence would be challenged in court (not that they would allow that sort of thing)

[^_^]

Hm interesting thread. Murder isn't uncommon for some reason in New Orleans I live in the uptown area/garden district pretty near my school. The school emails students about crimes that are commited in the new orleans area. For example:

NOPD 2nd District

On March 8th at or about 6:05 pm, officers were dispatched to a shooting in the 7300
block of Pitt Street. Upon arrival, officers found the victim lying in the street.
The victim had sustained gunshot wounds to his head and neck area. He was pronounced
dead on the scene by medical personnel. The victim was lying next to his personal
vehicle. It is believed that a black male shot the victim and fled to a nearby
vehicle (red in color).


This shit happens every day. That street is not very far from where I live. The funny part, as most students like to discuss, is that not one single email of the thousands that we get ever has a suspect that is white. The scary part is that this area is actually the nicer part of new orleans. You can look over and see a 6 million dollar house, and right around the corner you'll find a few crack heads. It's really mix and matched. At the restaurant that I work, all of our dishwashers and cooks are crack heads and alcoholics. I was actually around Bourbon street one night and all of a sudden there are gunshots about a block from where I was; some guy had just been murdered. So really, the city is all fucked up and it's not the hurricanes fault. No matter where you go in the city there will be crime, drugs, murder, and rape.

[Adi]

Conner, that police experiment is unbelievable. Something has to be done about this.

[cigar omar]

yes, old thread, but i was looking around and found a few articles that i figured melbourne would appreciate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8999837/

Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.

New Orleans residents are reluctant to come forward as witnesses, fearing retaliation. And experts say that is one of several reasons homicides are on the rise in the Big Easy at a time when other cities are seeing their murder rates plummet to levels not seen in decades.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/06/usa

Whatever the reason, 701-related laxity has become so common that New Orleans street hustlers have dubbed doing 60 days in jail for a killing a "misdemeanour murder." This was no exaggeration: in addition to the thousands of suspects being released under Article 701, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office secured just one conviction in the 162 murders committed in 2006. Worse still, the district attorney's violent offenders unit (VOU) which handles the city's most violent crime has recently been wracked by staff departures. Former prosecutors have publicly complained that they were forced to spend much of their time performing administrative tasks like photocopying.

What the fuck.  :saywhat:

[moby]

this is what the largest economy in the world does to it's people

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

yes, this is every city in the united states

louisiana is unlike every other state in the union.  shit, we aren't even governed by the same code of laws

 :pimp:

[cigar omar]

What makes me sick is that some people kind of brag about the murder/crime rate in their neighborhoods.

[moby]

there was this city were all the people said they would rather live in africa.


viva africa

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

what was that?  a colony of ex slaves?  boulder, colorado?  berkeley, california?

all jokes aside, i've heard that they've considered building a wall to stem the flow of emigration from the US.