Crime returns to New Orleans

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Crime appears to be returning to close to pre-Katrina levels in the big easy.

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Interesting part of the article:

Did the temporary displacement of the city's criminal element give them a dangerous new mobility, an ability to dodge the heat by relocating to a faraway city? Early on, police found a direct criminal thoroughfare between Houston and New Orleans, although that appears to be slowing as more New Orleanians return and Houston cracks down on tensions posed by evacuees.

-- Given the dispersal of city residents, what are the migration patterns of the criminally inclined? Some have speculated that since Mardi Gras, the criminal element is returning faster than the law-abiding population, who are waiting for housing and jobs, because criminals are accustomed to streetwise survival without steady employment or housing. "You have risk factors and you have stabilizing factors, things like churches, playgrounds and grandmothers," Scharf said. "Right now it looks like the risk factors are returning more quickly."

[Heights2Bastrop]

I sure hope New Orleans has enough corrupt cops to handle all those criminals who are returning.

[Jeebus]

I sure hope New Orleans has enough corrupt cops to handle all those criminals who are returning.

I'm sure they still have 250 "pretend" police officers add to the "real" corrupt ones as well.