I live in the New Orleans area. Although i was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, ive been down here for one and a half years.
The murder rate in New Orleans has been high for a long time (since the 80s) and nearly all of the murders that have happend here have been black on black.
Recently though, there has been more people on other race who have been killed. Ever since then, the media has started to pay more attention to the murders in New Orleans. But people, this has been going on here for decades. Why is it all of a sudden making world news? Is it because the murders that have recently been committed arent black on black? Or is there another reason who it has all of a sudden made world news recently?
Aaron
2007-01-11 11:27:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I think the murder rate is horrible, no matter who's killing whom. But I don't think it's George Bush's fault - why is everything his fault?
Does Mayor Nagin have any accountability for the current murder problem? I know you said it's been going on for a while, obviously beyond his term of office, but he was just reelected even in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
I think one thing to consider is that the media tends to beat these stories into the ground, so to speak. With the internet age, cell phones, and the technology that we have, we hear about these things a lot more often. Also, maybe someone just suddenly said, You know, this has been happening here a lot - let's do a story about it. I just read that Baltimore has the same number of murders since Jan. 1 - that city has had crime problems in the past as well. So it's not just new Orleans, unfortunately.
2007-01-11 14:29:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly think so. I think it's a shame that innocent people are being killed and robbed when they already have very little. I also think though, that some of the problem is that New Orleans isn't being restored. At least not at the rate of a top priority. Which it is. Thousands if not millions of dollars are being spent on a war over seas that no one is quite sure what for now, when that money could be used to restore New Orleans.
2007-01-12 07:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by archonette08 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any time a law abiding citizen is killed there will be more public sympathy. Neither the black population nor white population is going to march on city hall for a crack dealer's death. And, the white population will usually not get up in a fury if some heroin addicted white person is murdered by street scum either.
A random act of violence against any hardworking, educated family person is going to hit everyone's mind a little harder. It reminds people that their education and donation to the United Way doesn't mean much when confronted by some souless scum willing to kill for the equivalent to what they spent taking their kids to a movie.
Besides, how can anyone be critical of the white population (or middle-class black population) not getting up in arms to FIND a murderer, when people in that community KNOW who the killer is and refuse to "snitch"?
Edited to add: Helen Hill was not "just a white person" she and her husband both were community activists who was sacrificing greatly to service the underprivileged in New Orleans.
2007-01-11 16:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by MDHarp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The race of the victims was not given, the news was that there were so many (9 at last count) over such a short period of time, plus a curfew possibility. You are correct that crime is nothing new in N.O., my brother-in-law was murdered in his apartment off Bourbon Street about 10 years ago.
2007-01-11 13:58:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Aaron
Personally I wasn't aware of the colour of the people that were killed. Here in OZ it was presented to us in the fact that the crime rate was escalating in New Orleans such as the three muders. They told us the gender and age of the person but that was it. They put the spin on it that it all stems from your Government not having done enough initially. I think that's a fair call from what I've seen. Darn Bush.
2007-01-11 13:20:12 · answer #5 · answered by gretphemelger 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO. This guy is organic evil. He merits the harshest penalty of regulation. on no account, and that i advise on no account ought to I forgive this guy. God could forgive his sins yet i'm purely human and he's evil personified. i wish he burns interior the very worst place in hell. Sorry, yet this guy does not desrve to ever walk loose returned. in actuality he's the poster boy for the loss of life penalty.
2016-10-07 00:41:43 · answer #6 · answered by hobin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they always pay more attention when their own kind gets murdered.
2007-01-11 13:08:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. It seems to have.
2007-01-11 15:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋