In an article published 2 weeks prior to Katrina striking the gulf coast...
in recent years, the city's homicide rate has climbed again to nearly 10 times the national average.
"We're going in the reverse of 46 of the top 50 cities in the United States. Almost everyone is going down, but we're going up," said criminologist Peter Scharf. "There is something going on in New Orleans that is not going on elsewhere."
Uh-huh...and this from GOP Bloggers...
According to CityRating.com, New Orleans's murder rate was over 7 times the national average and the rate of violent crime was 62% higher than the national average.
Makes perfect sense to me now...
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