Nicole Gelinas writes in City Journal that, if the initial reporting on New Orleans’s post-Katrina crime wave was exaggerated, the pendulum has now swung too far in the opposite direction. It was still pretty damn bad, she says (and she cites lots of facts to back her up).
More importantly, Gelinas writes, New Orleans’s pre-Katrina violent crime wave was already a bona fide crisis, one whose roots go deep. Rebuilding the city, she says, demands serious solutions to the epidemic of drug-fueled violence, not mere empty rhetoric about poverty and so forth.
November 14th, 2005 at 10:40:16 pm
Sounds like something a blown-up levee would take care of.
November 14th, 2005 at 10:58:34 pm
I think you got your links messed up…the Katrina link goes to Instapundit’s post on Harry Potter. Just though you should know.
November 14th, 2005 at 11:02:42 pm
The post-Katrina free-fall continues for Bush. Gallup has him at 37 percent. He his now rated worse than Clinton on trustworthiness….
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001479449
…Keep attacking the Dems on Veterans Day. It’s working…for the Dems.
Ha Ha Ha!
November 14th, 2005 at 11:04:18 pm
LOL.. thanks remnant. Link fixed now.
November 15th, 2005 at 9:43:13 pm
Thanks for finding this article and posting the link. I found it carefully crafted and thought-provoking.