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We continue to hear about private groups in New Orleans donating and raising money for bullet-proof vests for the NOPD officers. Despite that we are told that over 100 officers still don’t have the life-saving vests.

Poor priorities of the City Council is one thing; incompetence is another.

Thanks to the research of a member of the Crack Mullet Research Team the money for the funding for the remaining vests has been found. Here is the line-item appropriation in Act 18 of 2007 Regular Session:

ADDITIONAL FUNDING RELATED TO HURRICANE DISASTER RECOVERY
Payable out of the State General Fund by
Statutory Dedications out of the 2004
Overcollections Fund to the city of New
Orleans for the New Orleans Police Department
for school buses, recruiting efforts, vans, mobile
command units, armored vehicles, bulletproof vests,
patrol cars, and bonuses for lateral officers hired
from other states $ 6,640,000

The taxpayers of LA have generously provided the total funding requested by NOPD Chief Warren Riley.

Why are citizens being asked to donate money for the vests?

Will an officer lose his/her life before someone gets off their behind and use the money to buy the vests?

Perhaps someone can get some answers from the City Council’s new $95,000 PR flack.

C.B.

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New Orleans has now recorded at least its 157th murder of the year.

The latest murder happened late Monday night in eastern New Orleans.

Nothing to be concerned about

Last week in an address to some cruise ship executives, Mayor Ray Nagin offered the following optimistic outlook on crime in New Orleans:

Nagin described the city’s violent crime as concentrated and unlikely to affect visitors who frequent tourist destinations.

“You don’t have anything to worry about,” Nagin said. “I’m looking at this audience and you all don’t look like young african-American males who are involved in drug activity.” Times Picayune, September 27, 2007.

Apparently, the residents of New Orleans, if they dare to leave their homes, best hang-out with the tourists.

As an added safety measure, locals could purchase t-shirts with “Don’t shoot; I’m a tourist” written on the front and back. Young black males could purchase t-shirts with “Don’t shoot; I’m not a drug dealer.”

C.B.

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The commercial media constantly whines about the Internet bloggers who they claim don’t do original research and thus often get the facts wrong.

On Sunday there was an op- ed piece in the venerable New York Times about the “Jena Six.” The piece was written by none other than a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Here’s an excerpt from the opening sentence:

THE miscarriage of justice at Jena, La. ­ where five black high school students arrested for beating a white student were charged with attempted murder…. (emphasis mine)

The facts: Jesse Ray Beard, Mychal Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw were all originally charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

While mine is not original research it is nonetheless research. Also common sense would tell anyone who bothered to read anything about the incident that the above group charged were not referred to as the “Jena Six” for no reason.

Nuff said.

C.B.

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