crime

Day 1088: Crime March Part Deux?

August 19, 2008

ReX of NOLA Rising just wrote a beautiful letter to the City of New Orleans which touches on the same emotions of frustration and indecision I brought up yesterday.  Please read the post in its entirety before coming back here.  Here are some of ReX’s words that stuck with me: … I am a father to two girls who no [...]

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Day 1055: A Superhero For New Orleans

July 17, 2008

From Batman, City Of Crime  Batman is my kind of superhero – dark, reclusive and inherently good.  Forget Superman and Spiderman, who are goody, britches-wearing Archie Bunkers when compared to The Dark Knight.  Last night, I watched Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight on the History Channel.  What I thought was going to be a [...]

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Day 1049: Crackdown

July 11, 2008

On the exposure of elastic, boxers and briefs and, as my niece puts it, “the crack of daaaawn.” Apparently, NOPD is not the only outfit that creates inane crimes and exorbitant punishment to go with them.  When there is much else to be fought in the nation’s third most violent city, the Flint, MI police [...]

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Day 1046: This Week In Irony

July 8, 2008

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Day 1040: New Orleans Keeping Up With

July 2, 2008

last year’s crime rate. So, how’s rooting folks out of their FEMA trailers coming? Tweet

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Day 1013: Another Shooting In My Neighborhood

June 5, 2008

Two blocks away this time.  We drank our coffee to the sirens of speeding police cars and ambulances that rattled our house while rushing to the scene. In what continues to be a busy crime scene in the Lower Garden District, a gunman shot a 36-year-old man near the corner of Annunciation and Market streets, [...]

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Day 978: Newsweek’s Take On New Orleans Today

May 2, 2008

Newsweek: Towards A New New Orleans This latest mainstream media piece on New Orleans seems to contain a bit more ground truth (except, as Oyster points out, there ain’t no Beaujolais St. here) and is yet somehow more non-committal than its predecessors.  The feeling I got when reading the article is that it throws up many pieces to the jigsaw [...]

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March 23, 2008

A WDSU news anchor (whom I think was LaTonya Norton) and a cameraman rushed into Fahy’s last night in search of bathrooms.  What was going on?  The anchor, who clearly didn’t want to be working last evening, explained that someone had been shot in the leg on Bourbon St. and she was there to cover [...]

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Day 901: Mayor Doing What He Does Best

February 14, 2008

Covering his behind. … Unfortunately, photos of the command unit that will be stationed across from the NBA headquarters for this week’s NBA All Star Game were not selected for publication, unfortunately photos of the smart boards and computer equipment that will allow officers to have real time data and analysis while in the field [...]

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Day 900: Can The City Fire Nagin Now, Please?

February 13, 2008

It has been 900 days since Katrina’s landfall and the levees broke.  To commemorate thirty months, I thought of writing something poignant about how far the city has come and how much farther it has to go.  This city has a mayor, however, who has a nasty habit of knocking all feelings sentimental and hopeful to [...]

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