From the New York Times, which notes the police force is almost up to pre-Katrina numbers, while the population is still half what it was before Katrina. The police are getting barbecued, here.

Chief Riley insisted during a news conference that his force was capable of controlling crime, and that the request did not undermine him or the Police Department. But his inconsistent remarks during the day reflected the difficulty his department has had in recent months.

"With the appropriate resources we will have this city under control," he said, just moments after stating, "This is not a situation where anything is out of control."

The Guard will focus on patrolling the neighborhoods that were most damaged in the flood and that are still largely uninhabited, Chief Riley said. That move would free as many as 300 police officers, who had been patrolling for looters, to concentrate on crime in the heavily populated areas of the city.

He said there would be no National Guard presence in downtown New Orleans, the French Quarter or any other heavily populated area.

Residents in parts of the city with the heaviest damage, like Lakeview and New Orleans East, where the looting of flooded homes has been especially acute, have been asking city officials for more protection for months.

That desire has also been reflected by [jewish] talk radio hosts and [juden-press] columnists in the [Zionist] local papers.

"Madame Governor, Mr. Mayor, esteemed Legislature and City Council: Get us some protection and get it now," wrote one of the city's most popular columnists, Chris Rose of The Times-Picayune, in a recent column. "Get us some security. Get us the National Guard."

Residents say they have found it difficult to rebuild because supplies and new appliances are stolen as quickly as they are delivered to unoccupied houses in largely vacant neighborhoods.

"It's past time for the Guard to be here," said Larry Dupont, an electrician who lived in Gentilly before the flood destroyed his neighborhood. "I'm fed up with all that New Orleans is not doing to help its people."

Still, others said they resented the militarization of the city, and did not have fond memories of the National Guard's time here immediately after the hurricane.

"When they were here before, it didn't exactly give me a sense of safety," said Kalli Forster, the manager of a boutique in the Uptown section. "It made me feel like I was in a war zone."

Others said the move had sent a frightening message.

"It's basically saying that the people in charge here aren't in control," said Dawn Larsen, a waitress in Uptown.

The five young men who were killed before dawn on Saturday were ages 16 to 19, and, said Chief Riley, three of the five had criminal backgrounds. The three were involved in a drive-by shooting in another part of the city on May 1, the chief said. They were charged with aggravated assault and the possession of a weapon, but the victim and witnesses refused to cooperate and press charges, so they were freed.

From the Times -Picayune.

CALL OUT THE GUARD
Predators are picking the bones of our flooded homes, and stopping them is about more than protecting our pocket doors and appliances
Friday, June 09, 2006
By Chris Rose
She has a house in Gentilly and let her grass grow to 3 feet tall because she knows the predators are out there and she wants them to think her house is empty, abandoned, unlivable, uncared for.

But in fact, she's been working like mad to rehab the place, get it all fixed up and charmed out. She's ready to get on with her life.

But still, she keeps the grass at 3 feet and all ratty looking anyway, just in case the trucks come down her street. The trucks, they haul everything away. Nighttime, daytime, it doesn't matter.

Everyone in Gentilly, Lakeview, the East and the Lower 9th talks about the trucks.

In the end, her ruse didn't work. Last week, she had all her plumbing fixtures delivered during the day and she went back to Metairie to sleep and by morning, of course, everything was gone. Sinks, toilets, even the water heater. Just gone.

The trucks had come. They weren't fooled.

She called the police, but they didn't come to the house. Took the report over the phone. They asked if there were any witnesses. "No one lives here," she told them.

Two weeks ago, I was talking to a guy in Lakeview who stood in his front yard and told me: "As fast as you can have appliances delivered out here, they disappear. It's killing us."

This guy -- a big guy -- lives alone on his block and his property was picked over plenty before he returned, but now he's living there and he's armed but, like he told me: "I can't protect the whole block. I can't protect the whole neighborhood. But nobody else is."

He paused. He owns an expensive house and drives a nice car and has a white-collar job, but he looked disheveled and beat down as all get-out.

"Help us," he said to me. And then he did what grown men do in New Orleans more than grown men do anywhere else I've ever heard of and that's break down and sob. MUST HAVE BEEN A JEW.

That's what we've become. It's pathetic, really.

Madame Governor, Mr. Mayor, esteemed Legislature and City Council: Get us some protection and get it now. Get us some security. Get us the National Guard.

It is clear that our Police Department has its hands full on the city streets, where thuggery, robbery and drug sales flourish once again -- just like the old New Orleans we all remember so unfondly.

But we cannot leave the residents of the decimated neighborhoods to their own devices to survive. We cannot leave them to the trucks, and the predators who drive them, whoever they are, and that raises a question: Who the hell is stealing all this stuff?

I poked around on the Internet trying to get an idea what the Constitution says about the National Guard and what the precedents are in American history for calling them out. While I don't remember an official announcement that martial law [!!!] was lifted in New Orleans, I'm assuming it was.

But if the National Guard exists to assist in times of natural disaster and emergency, then I'm pretty sure we qualify. Why were they sent away in the first place?

I can't imagine that your run-of-the-mill reservists or guardsmen from DeRidder and Bunkie relish the idea of spending the summer in uniform in New Orleans. BEATS SUMMER IN IRAQ!

But the very existence of our community is at stake and, forgive my melodrama, but everyone knows the equation by now: A lot of us have (foolishly?) decided we're willing to put up with shoddy services, political inertia, debris, crappy streets and the threat of future hurricanes because this is our home and we love it here -- really, really love it here, shambles and all.

But when predators and looters are allowed to pick over the ruins of our lives with impunity, then there's truly only one reasonable decision to make: leave.

The return of Humvee tires crunching the wrecked streets of our destroyed neighborhoods would be a good way to start telling the thieves: Christmas is over. HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S NOT ORGANIZED JEWISH MAFIA?

On Wednesday afternoon, a police headquarters spokeswoman and a patrol supervisor both told me that the stories of rampant theft fall under urban mythology. The patrol supervisor said he's not heard a single report of kitchen appliances being stolen but then added: "Generators, tools, molding and doors -- yeah. That's happening. But I haven't heard anything about appliances."

Then, later that afternoon, he called back to amend his statement: That morning, a full set of appliances and marble countertops had walked out of a house in Lakeview.

This is insane.

And what about the street crime in the Marigny, the Quarter, Central City and Uptown? Is it urban mythology or are all these e-mails I get forwarded true -- the panicky ones about automobiles full of menacing young men and their guns on Uptown streets?

Well, here's a strange paradox: In the end, it doesn't matter whether the increase in crime is a reality or a perception.

They both lead to the same result: A community withers under the strain. The quality of life craters. People leave.

I ask you: Do you feel safe?

A friend of mine who lives Uptown -- about three blocks from where a guy was found shot to death in his truck Tuesday morning -- tells me that he and his buddies are talking about forming citizen patrols to go help folks in the blighted neighborhoods protect their stuff.

This is a dangerous idea for so many reasons I can't even begin to list them. But it's hard to object. This gets me so pissed off I literally cannot see straight sometimes.

Madame Governor, Mr. Mayor and everyone else: It's time to take action. Your constituents are fearing for their lives and property. Can you hear us?

To borrow a phrase from you, Mr. Nagin: Get off your asses. Bring on the Guard.

. . . . . . .

Columnist Chris Rose can be reached at chris.rose@timespicayune.com; or at (504) 352-2535 or (504) 826-3309. To reach past columns, visit http://www.nola.com/rose.

These are National Guard troops, the governor controls them not the Feds.

Who wrote the Guard is controlled by the Feds? I didn't. I said every GOVERNOR in America should be asking for Guard troops. The federal government has the ability to federalize the National Guard, so your unnecessary correction isn't even correct! Read before you write, brother.

The Times-Picayune is owned by... RICH JEWS.

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (1895 - 1979) was a U.S. broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher.

Newhouse is the namesake of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the founder of the current empire of Advance Publications, now run by his son Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.

One of the vessels of the Staten Island Ferry is also named after him.

His great-grandson, Si Newhouse IV, is featured in a documentary called Born Rich about the experience of growing up as the heir to one of the world's greatest fortunes.

I love it, more glaring examples of nigger behavior. What I want to know is, how come people still aren't getting it.

Why is every city country in the world, that has a lot of niggers in it, a shithole?

What is so difficult for these lemmings to understand?

The nig mayor promised a chocolate city. Well, there it is, back in business for thousands of city officials from nig savages. Otherwise his constituent&#8217]Incidentally, lay-offs in federal, state , and local of zoo-keepers officials would have a detrimental effect on the service economy. In other word, Twana & Rufus Jones would not be able to buy bling bling, pimp my ride, molt liquor, Nikes, DVD, etc.to have a trickle down effect.

This is what the great conservative" Roanald Reagan meant by of the VOOO DOOO economy , as he signed-off NAFTA-SHAFTA Whitey manufacture economy to Asia.

 

Let me guess - these mysterious thieves are Mexicans, maybe?

So, the guard is down there as a security force, patrolling private property. I thought they only did that for Halliburton! I wonder what's really going on?

By Peter Henderson
Wed Jun 21, 11:04 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - National Guard troops fanned out in three New Orleans neighborhoods on Wednesday to help stop a spasm of violence and looting in deserted areas as the city struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

Guard Humvees began the day shadowing police officers through streets nearly devoid of life that have become fertile ground for thieves, some posing as builders.

By afternoon the Guard troops were on their own. "We've pretty much got our feet wet," said Staff Sgt. Michael Levesque, 37, a casino dealer in Bossier City, Louisiana who had less than a day to mobilize for a job that city police say will last through a long, hot and possibly stormy summer.

Guardsmen and women dressed in army-style fatigues carried holstered pistols instead of automatic rifles. "We're not here to show that much of a force," Levesque said.
[HOW LONG BEFORE ONE OF THESE BABES ENDS UP DEAD AND HER PISTOL MISSING?]

The call for the Guard was a shock for many in the United States who had watched emergency responders leave New Orleans earlier this year. But rising violence and drugs, the expected return of residents during the summer and a bloody quintuple teen homicide over the weekend galvanized city and state officials to act.

The pall of Katrina, which struck August 29, flooding the vast majority of the city and killing more than 1,500 from Louisiana, still hangs over New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward, where Levesque was patrolling.

Slumping, twisted homes, weedy fields that used to be front yards, debris from broken cars and piles of muddy furniture still define the area.

Lionel Worthy, 73, said from the stoop of his battered house that the soldiers were a welcome sight. "With all the murders and things, I think it is beautiful," he said.

The Guard also began paroling the Lakeview and New Orleans East areas covered by several feet of water for weeks.

ROUND-THE-CLOCK COVERAGE

One hundred troops hit the streets during the day and a second hundred were arriving in New Orleans in the afternoon, with 100 more due on Thursday, spokesman Pete Schneider said.

Many in New Orleans are frustrated by the slow pace of recovery in a city where few of the badly damaged homes have been rebuilt and many remain gutted. Trash piles still litter streets in nearly every neighborhood.

Patrols will continue around the clock, Schneider added. State police are also helping patrol the French Quarter, the tourist magnet for the jazz city.

City police will refocus on the most populated areas, where the murder rate per capita is returning to roughly pre-Katrina levels, even though the total number of killings has fallen.

Residents decried the shooting of five teens on Saturday in a crime police say may be drug or revenge related, and the city accelerated a call for summer reinforcements that leaders said was already in the works.

Police Captain Bernardine Kelly, one of the commanders for the Ninth Ward area, said on Tuesday evening that much of the Guard's job would involve looking for looters.

"You can't tell the contractors from the thieves," she said.

A number of Guard veterans of Iraq and post-storm patrol in New Orleans said the job was not daunting.

"Even if this city's been destroyed, it's better than Iraq," said Guard Sgt. Rachel Hall, 23, stopping at a warehouse near the Mississippi River levee where police investigated a possible burglary by men with a rental truck.

"I don't want to see New Orleans go under," she added. "I want to be able to come back down here and eat, drink and be merry on my own time."

"You can't tell the contractors from the thieves," she said.

A number of Guard veterans of Iraq and post-storm patrol in New Orleans said the job was not daunting.

"Even if this city's been destroyed, it's better than Iraq," said Guard Sgt. Rachel Hall, 23, stopping at a warehouse near the Mississippi River levee where police investigated a possible burglary by men with a rental truck.

"I don't want to see New Orleans go under," she added. "I want to be able to come back down here and eat, drink and be merry on my own time."

So, the National Guards are fighting two fronts war for the benefit of Kike-Coon 1: Jew v. Arab 2: Nigger v. Nigger.

All the more reason that a day without Whitey, the City-Nigger reverts to savagery. Israel wiped-off the map.

Why would the governors need to ask for the troops, when they already command them? Who would they ask for them?

Notice no TV coverage of these events? The jew dare not show the reality of nigger behavior and what it does to a city in ruins.

Every lemmings needs to have this reality forcefully shoved in his face. And then if he still doesn't get it, he needs to be beaten to death with a lead pipe.

Mayor Melton Signs State of Emergency

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The city of Jackson is now under a state of an emergency. Mayor Frank Melton signed the order Thursday morning during a news conference at City Hall. Mayor Melton signed the state of emergency proclamation just after 10:00 am.

The mayor says he was contemplating whether he would sign it all day Wednesday, but after two shooting incidents, he quickly made up his mind. The first involved a Chrysler 300 sedan that police say was being chased by armed men shooting from a Dodge Magnum station wagon. The pursuit ended at First Avenue and Eastview Street in West Jackson. The driver was shot in the back and the back of the head. Police are still looking for the shooter in that case.

Then Wednesday night -- around 9:30 -- police arrested a man accused of shooting at officers and leading them on a chase through south Jackson. Police say 45 year-old Mark Fusilier went through a roadblock on McDowell Road, and did not stop until he rammed two police cars near Cooper Road and Meadow Lane. Police found what they suspect is crystal meth inside the car. Fuselier is now in jail, facing numerous charges.

The biggest part of this state of emergency deals with the new curfew hours. Kids 17 and under will not be allowed in the streets of Jackson after 9 p-m, Sunday through Thursday, and after 10 p-m on Friday and Saturdays.

The mayor says he is asking the Jackson police department to strongly enforce this curfew. Kids who are involved in organized activities, are exempt from this. Those who violate the curfew, can be expect to be arrested, along with their parents.

Mayor Melton said, "Some of the crimes that are being committed are being done during the day. If this doesn't straighten up then I will implement a curfew a daytime curfew for our kids. I will hold parents accountable if will instruct the Jackson police department if they arrest any kids that are in violation of this curfew were implementing. I want their fathers also arrested to go to court to show cause to a judge why they're not managing their child."

Mayor Melton says he will be meeting with Governor Barbour at five Thursday evening, to ask him for assistance in fighting crime in Jackson. He would not discuss what he plans to ask the governor for, even though he had said in recent days he'd like to call the national guard out.

Melton says his priority is to protect senior citizens and children in Jackson. The state of emergency will be evaluated every five days, until it is no longer needed. That call will come from the mayor.

What Nawlins needs is another hurricane. Or a tidal wave, earthquake, ANYTHING. I am so sick of filthy nigger savages and their enabling jooz.

AM

Nothin' mo' pathetic,den da black leadin' da black.

I was unaware Jackson, Mississippi HAD an inner city. This is weird beyond belief. You need a state of emergency for curfews? What if the kids' dads are in prison or dead? Will they arrest the moms?

Frank Melton, (1950- ) is current mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, having been inaugurated on July 4, 2005, defeating the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr.. His stated goals are to reform much of the city's infrastructure. Melton strives to tackle crime within the inner city, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to show that he is dedicated to that goal. These efforts include intrusion of roadblocks and periodical examinations of driver licenses, etc. Melton has also spearheaded numerous campaigns to capture perpetrators within the city, wearing a badge he received in a previous county position and often personally arresting suspects, although he holds no official jurisdiction to make arrests. On July 27, 2005 Melton fired the city's long-time fire chief, and demoted the police spokesman, Lt. Robert Graham, who had retained this occupation for 12 years. Melton has also recently asked that minimum amounts for bonds be raised to $500,000.00. He sent out a press statement requesting that all members of city boards resign, although he did not have the authority to fire them. He is also involved in a lawsuit where he is being sued by former employees of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics because, while director in 2003, he leaked a memo harmful to their careers that was later ruled mostly false by the state auditor's office. In a sworn written statement, he first denied leaking the memo; then days after taking office as mayor, admitted leaking it. There are those who have denounced Melton's actions as unethical, question his legal authority to commit such acts, or believe that his actions go beyond his powers as mayor. Many criticize him for being a "sound-bite mayor." Then there are many who are pleased to see him take a hands-on and vocal approach to addressing the city's problems.