New Orleans Residents Arming Themselves
By MARY FOSTER
AP
NEW ORLEANS (March 24) - Sixty-four-year-old Vivian Westerman rode out Hurricane Katrina in her 19th-century house. So terrible was the experience that she wanted two things before the 2006 season arrived: a backup power source and a gun.
"I got a 6,000-watt generator and the cutest little Smith & Wesson, snub-nose .38 you ever saw," she boasted. "I've never been more confident."
People across New Orleans are arming themselves - not only against the possibility of another storm bringing anarchy, but against the violence that has engulfed the metropolitan area in the 19 months since Katrina , making New Orleans the nation's murder capital.
National Guardsmen and state police are patrolling the streets of New Orleans. In neighboring Jefferson Parish, which posted a record 66 homicides in 2006, the sheriff sent armored vehicles to protect high-crime neighborhoods.
In New Orleans, police have accused the district attorney of failing to prosecute many suspects. Prosecutors have accused the police of not bringing them solid cases.
2007-03-24 03:29:08 · 13 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
10. I live in a gun community (Kennesaw, GA).
Not one instance of crime in my neighborhood in 17 years.
2007-03-30 23:25:22 · answer #1 · answered by pepper 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
9
2007-03-24 03:35:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in West Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City's Borough of Manhattan. My neighborhood is about a 9.
The only major criminal activity here is drug dealing, and that's a lot less severe than it used to be.
The dealers generally mind their own business, they only have beef with customers and business partners who don't pay for their drugs and with competitors who barge in on their turf (and they generally handle their business in private, off the streets).
Other than that, we have the same domestic disputes that any other community would have - and, of course, we have police brutality and lots of petty arrests of young guys who's only "crime" is hanging out on the corner!
2007-03-24 03:52:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just read in the paper that violent crime is up while crime is down. Fascinating. My community has good and bad spots. The good ones I'd rate a four, the bad, a six. I live in Bradenton, FL.
2007-03-30 11:32:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I Live in a Small town and we had very little crime until Illegal Immigrants started populating it. Most of the Crime is DUI's, and Assaults.
2007-03-31 07:49:41 · answer #5 · answered by donna_honeycutt47 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At the moment an 8
After a disaster? Probably the worse case scenario...1
2007-03-24 03:47:50 · answer #6 · answered by lsis3d 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in the Western Suburbs of Cook County, IL, and I would have to say 10.
2007-03-31 19:54:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
9.5
people who don't belong in the local community (like transients, drug dealers, foreigners that don't work at the local chinese or mexican restaurants) are usually reported to the sheriff by the senior citizens on community patrol.
living in a small town sometimes has it's benefits, but also -- everyone knows everyone elses business.
2007-03-24 03:33:47 · answer #8 · answered by curious_One 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
10 i live in a very safe community in whichi in the past three years not one huge crime has occured i feel safe
2007-03-24 03:54:30 · answer #9 · answered by shortysherry46 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in the hills of Tennessee, we have virtually no harse crimes, reason why is everybody carries a gun... mess with us and you end up dead
2007-03-31 03:08:17 · answer #10 · answered by greenhollow2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋