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Mayor calls for troops to stay in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans
Mar 27, 2007, 22:23 GMT
Washington - Military forces should stay in New Orleans to help quash a crime spree that has spread across the city since hurricane Katrina struck in the summer of 2005, the city's mayor said Tuesday.
Mayor Ray Nagin said local police were unable to halt the wave of crime without the help of about 300 National Guard troops, in comments cited by the Times-Picayune.
The National Guard was sent to the city in June 2006 and is due to pull out in September. Nagin also called for another 60 police officers from the state of Louisiana to stay beyond the September deadline.
New Orleans dealt with 162 murders last year, one of the highest rates in the US for a city of its size. More than half of the city's 450,000 residents have still not returned since hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the Gulf Coast region in August 2005.
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Actually, he was recently reelected. Kinda makes you wonder, don't it?
There's no accounting for taste...
Who would want to move back to a crime riddled city? Who would want to rear children in this kind of environment? We have a lot of cleaning up to do in the homeland, how can we afford to clean up the messes in other countries?
Without law and order, you have a decaying infrastructure. Make New Orleans rainbow again.
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SP4: To all Louisianans...Mar 28th, 2007 - 00:52:06
When are you going to flush this turd called Nagan?
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