Reply #291: no he's actually correct on the new orleans thing

[pitohui]

i live in new orleans

pre-katrina for 2005 we had a murder rate 3 times that of detroit, we were in a gang war

there was a press release from eddie compass, police chief, at the end of july, it was posted on nola.com

it's old history now, the gangs have moved on to greener pastures

but you could try the times-picayune archives, summer of 2005, and you should be able to find the statistic

the reason new orleans is often left off of statistics is because we were fighting to be considered a major city (pop. 500,000 by the fbi) and there was some question whether we really had that large a population any more

now there is no question, the nighttime pop. of orleans is around 100,000 so we are not going to be included in any round-ups of major cities

i won't comment on his gun control arguments, pro or con, but he did not imagine what he printed about the murder rate in new orleans in 2005, we were living it