Great piece on New Orleans and their history of criminality......

Criminals have ruled New Orleans for some time, convincing many members of the middle class, long before the hurricane, that the city was unlivable. In 1994, New Orleans was the murder capital of America. It had 421 murders that year. Criminologists predicted 300 murders this year, a projection that now looks quite conservative.

And then this one:

New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, "nearly 10 times the national average," reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans -- and criminals so fierce -- that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon "no one called to report the gunfire," reported AP.

In short, this is a city run by criminals. It coddles and glorifies the criminal culture. Do you really expect a criminal culture to do things like research the number of people too poor to evacuate in case of disaster. Do you expect a bunch of criminals to devise plans to evacuate in case of emergency? Do you expect the criminal government to take Homeland Security money and not stick it in their pockets? Let's close our eyes and rebuilt it.