Once A Cesspool, Always A CessPool
The wail of police sirens is back and gunfire once again punctuates the night. As drug dealers move into houses damaged by flooding, alarmed residents say that in the last few weeks they have begun to sense a return to the bad old days before Hurricane Katrina, when crime was an omnipresent straitjacket on life in this city.
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In the past, even when there were lulls in crime, many residents felt as if they were living in a city under siege.
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But crime is nowhere near its pre- storm levels. With the city’s population reduced by at least three-fifths, statistics indicate that crime is down 60 percent to 70 percent over all, the department said.
Ummm… If three-fifths, or 60%, of the population left, wouldn’t it make sense that crime would drop by the same amount? So, statistically, crime hasn’t dropped. It has adjusted equally with the drop in population.
[Hat Tip: Right Voices]