Fade the Butcher
02-06-2006, 08:21 AM
Ignorant racists proven wrong yet again. It's a shame the old MSF is not around. :p
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/05/AR2006020500884.html)
HOUSTON -- The southwest corner of this city is one sprawling low-rise apartment complex after the next, once-hot real estate area that died with the 1980s oil bust only to be reborn in the '90s as a low-income, high-crime neighborhood. Now it's Katrina turf.
New Tony's Express, neighborhood convenience store, is sold out of T-shirts and caps stenciled with the numbers 504, 985 and 337 -- the area codes for New Orleans and southern Louisiana. The emergency room of West Houston Medical Center is so busy treating Hurricane Katrina evacuees the staff jokingly calls itself "Charity West," a reference to New Orleans's venerable Charity Hospital.
And now, police say that southwest Houston, long recognized as problem area, is facing another manifestation of the Louisiana exodus: Katrina crime.
Since Sept. 1, when estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Louisianans resettled in Houston after Hurricane Katrina, evacuees are believed to have been involved in 26 slayings, or nearly 17 percent of homicides. The cases, according to Houston police, involved 34 evacuees -- 19 of them victims and 15 of them suspects.
Late last month, investigators in Houston Police Department's Gang Murder Squad announced the arrests of eight of 11 suspects believed linked to nine homicides in the city's southwest side and two others in nearby Pasadena, Tex. The slayings occurred since November, and all the suspects are displaced New Orleanians who landed in Houston after the hurricane.
"We did not initiate this effort with intention of singling out New Orleans or Louisiana people," said Lt. Robert Manza, a police department spokesman. "It just happens every one we arrested and three we're looking for are New Orleans residents."
"The message is clear: We're going to relocate these men from apartments in Houston to prison in Texas," Manza said. "That's going to be their next home." . . .
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/05/AR2006020500884.html)
HOUSTON -- The southwest corner of this city is one sprawling low-rise apartment complex after the next, once-hot real estate area that died with the 1980s oil bust only to be reborn in the '90s as a low-income, high-crime neighborhood. Now it's Katrina turf.
New Tony's Express, neighborhood convenience store, is sold out of T-shirts and caps stenciled with the numbers 504, 985 and 337 -- the area codes for New Orleans and southern Louisiana. The emergency room of West Houston Medical Center is so busy treating Hurricane Katrina evacuees the staff jokingly calls itself "Charity West," a reference to New Orleans's venerable Charity Hospital.
And now, police say that southwest Houston, long recognized as problem area, is facing another manifestation of the Louisiana exodus: Katrina crime.
Since Sept. 1, when estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Louisianans resettled in Houston after Hurricane Katrina, evacuees are believed to have been involved in 26 slayings, or nearly 17 percent of homicides. The cases, according to Houston police, involved 34 evacuees -- 19 of them victims and 15 of them suspects.
Late last month, investigators in Houston Police Department's Gang Murder Squad announced the arrests of eight of 11 suspects believed linked to nine homicides in the city's southwest side and two others in nearby Pasadena, Tex. The slayings occurred since November, and all the suspects are displaced New Orleanians who landed in Houston after the hurricane.
"We did not initiate this effort with intention of singling out New Orleans or Louisiana people," said Lt. Robert Manza, a police department spokesman. "It just happens every one we arrested and three we're looking for are New Orleans residents."
"The message is clear: We're going to relocate these men from apartments in Houston to prison in Texas," Manza said. "That's going to be their next home." . . .