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Criminologist blames spike in crime on August flooding
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:46 pm
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Statues
Global warming
Flooding
What's missing from the list?
Louisianians
Sorry, but that's just the facts.
New Orleans is up 60% and they didn't have any flooding. So, its statues and global warming.
See the trend?
We never put ourselves on any of these lists anymore.
quote:
BATON ROUGE- LSU Criminologist Dr. Ed Shihadeh believes the recent spike in crime this area has seen so far this year can be attributed to mother nature. Right now, murders are up across the parish by almost 50 percent.
"Right after August, sometime in October and November, we saw a spike in crime," Shihadeh said. "When we are talking about 100,000 people rendered homeless as a result of the flood, it has an enormously disorganizing scrambling effect on the community."
Numbers obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit from January until today show a disturbing spoke this year when compared to the past four years.
Homicides to date in EBR Parish are as follows:
45 in 2017
23 in 2016
35 in 2015
36 in 2014
32 in 2013
Statues
Global warming
Flooding
What's missing from the list?
Louisianians
Sorry, but that's just the facts.
New Orleans is up 60% and they didn't have any flooding. So, its statues and global warming.
See the trend?
We never put ourselves on any of these lists anymore.
This post was edited on 8/2/17 at 10:53 pm
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Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:51 pm to Mike da Tigah
There's always an excuse. Frustrating as hell
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:54 pm to Mike da Tigah
He was just on Channel two and we were laughing about it. Yeah flooding . Ok . Just avoid that elephant by the couch.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 11:01 pm to Lsupimp
quote:
He was just on Channel two and we were laughing about it. Yeah flooding . Ok . Just avoid that elephant by the couch.
Pretty laughable to be sure. Poor ole us, always victims of something Mother Nature throws at us, or some other inanimate villain in the form of a statue. Never could we just have a very serious criminal problem in our community.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 11:07 pm to Mike da Tigah
i moved away almost 15 years ago but i was born and raised in the swamps of Slidell and im damn proud to be from Louisiana. it kills me to see the state just seemingly get worse and worse every year, and very definitely getting worse by any standard 'quality of life' rankings.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 11:47 pm to Mike da Tigah
quote:
New Orleans is up 60%
That number should start to come down now that the offending statues have been removed. Now, a hurricane or other AGW-related disaster could result in the homicide level remaining high, or even going up.
This post was edited on 8/2/17 at 11:48 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 11:49 pm to tarzana
Katrina definitely made Houston's murder rate skyrocket.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 11:51 pm to Mike da Tigah
Has crime in Livingston parish shot up?
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