By mid-August of 2005 there were 192 murders. I remember it being a deadly summer. With a smaller population, we are at 140 murders already for this year, 26 in this August alone. Mark over at m.d. filter sums it up pretty well on his site complete with quotes from our mayor and police chief.

I often wonder what would have happened if Landrieu had gotten those few extra votes to become mayor. I know that no politician is perfect but I feel like he would have been more involved with stopping crime -- he would have had more to prove in the new position. As it is now, I feel like we not only have an incompetent mayor but one that doesn't care. I'm sorry that Nagin is not running for governor as that would have at least gotten him out of City Hall.

We had a perfect opportunity after Katrina to quell crime here with the help of the National Guard. We blew it. Although i never would have said this three years ago, I think that the police need to knock more heads.