ExSoldier's NOTE: S'pose it doesn't work? S'pose there is a shift in who controls WHAT on the national scene....S'pose a Somalia type plan were to emerge to ask for UN "Peace Keepers" to come onto US Soil and "control rampant gun crime?" NOTE this is not an anti-UN SHTF scenario. PLEASE DON'T ruin this thread with wild Rambo assertions. I just want to see where all this "send in the national guard to disarm the bad guys" mentality might be leading.....
National Guard called to fight New Orleans crime
By Peter HendersonMon Jun 19, 8:09 PM ET
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Monday said she would send National Guard troops and state police to New Orleans to fight rising violence after five teenagers were shot and killed.
The brutal pre-dawn shooting on Saturday was one of the most deadly attacks in the history of New Orleans and raised fear among residents that crime is returning before the city can completely recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
"The situation is urgent and we will accelerate our plans to deploy law enforcement to the city tomorrow," Blanco said in a statement after Mayor Ray Nagin and the city council called for reinforcements for city police.
"We will respond with personnel from the State Police and National Guard," she said, adding that 300 National Guard troops and 60 state police would start arriving on Tuesday.
The mayor and city council members held a special meeting on Monday morning in the wake of the shooting in the city which used to have one of the highest murder rates in the United States.
"We are not going ... to let hurricane crime replace Hurricane Katrina," City Council President Oliver Thomas said in televised remarks as mothers of victims of the Saturday shooting stood nearby. Nagin also said he would set a curfew for young people in the city.
The mayor and governor both said that before the shooting they had been working on a plan to reinforce the city.
New Orleans is still reeling from Katrina, which hit last August 29, and only about 220,000 people, or half the pre-storm population, have come back, leaving many neighborhoods dark and many returning citizens isolated.
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"I'm really frightened to come back here," said Iris Beck, cleaning out her house in the Sugar Hill section of town, which had flooded with a few feet of water after the storm. Most homes on the block still stand empty, spray-painted red crosses with the numbers 9 15 showing rescuers searched the neighborhood mid-September, or about two weeks after Katrina struck.
Beck called the National Guard proposal an "excellent idea" to respond to crime with discipline. "I'm going back to old school tactics, the way we were raised," she said, remembering stern elders who whipped children for disciplinary infractions but also gave them firm direction in life.
One or more assailants with semi-automatic handguns sprayed a sports utility vehicle shortly before dawn on Saturday, killing a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old and three 19-year-olds, said police, who found the vehicle slammed into a utility pole, surrounded by shell casings.
Four were dead on the spot and the fifth died shortly thereafter, raising the number of killings to 52 this year.
That is less than half the number a year ago, but the city's population is similarly low and killings have accelerated in the last two months, according to police statistics. Residents and local media frequently voice a fear that crime is accelerating.
New Orleans was once one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, but the level of violence dropped sharply in the wake of Katrina, which killed more than 1,500 and drove nearly the entire population from their homes.
National Guard called to fight New Orleans crime
By Peter HendersonMon Jun 19, 8:09 PM ET
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Monday said she would send National Guard troops and state police to New Orleans to fight rising violence after five teenagers were shot and killed.
The brutal pre-dawn shooting on Saturday was one of the most deadly attacks in the history of New Orleans and raised fear among residents that crime is returning before the city can completely recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
"The situation is urgent and we will accelerate our plans to deploy law enforcement to the city tomorrow," Blanco said in a statement after Mayor Ray Nagin and the city council called for reinforcements for city police.
"We will respond with personnel from the State Police and National Guard," she said, adding that 300 National Guard troops and 60 state police would start arriving on Tuesday.
The mayor and city council members held a special meeting on Monday morning in the wake of the shooting in the city which used to have one of the highest murder rates in the United States.
"We are not going ... to let hurricane crime replace Hurricane Katrina," City Council President Oliver Thomas said in televised remarks as mothers of victims of the Saturday shooting stood nearby. Nagin also said he would set a curfew for young people in the city.
The mayor and governor both said that before the shooting they had been working on a plan to reinforce the city.
New Orleans is still reeling from Katrina, which hit last August 29, and only about 220,000 people, or half the pre-storm population, have come back, leaving many neighborhoods dark and many returning citizens isolated.
HELP WELCOME
"I'm really frightened to come back here," said Iris Beck, cleaning out her house in the Sugar Hill section of town, which had flooded with a few feet of water after the storm. Most homes on the block still stand empty, spray-painted red crosses with the numbers 9 15 showing rescuers searched the neighborhood mid-September, or about two weeks after Katrina struck.
Beck called the National Guard proposal an "excellent idea" to respond to crime with discipline. "I'm going back to old school tactics, the way we were raised," she said, remembering stern elders who whipped children for disciplinary infractions but also gave them firm direction in life.
One or more assailants with semi-automatic handguns sprayed a sports utility vehicle shortly before dawn on Saturday, killing a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old and three 19-year-olds, said police, who found the vehicle slammed into a utility pole, surrounded by shell casings.
Four were dead on the spot and the fifth died shortly thereafter, raising the number of killings to 52 this year.
That is less than half the number a year ago, but the city's population is similarly low and killings have accelerated in the last two months, according to police statistics. Residents and local media frequently voice a fear that crime is accelerating.
New Orleans was once one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, but the level of violence dropped sharply in the wake of Katrina, which killed more than 1,500 and drove nearly the entire population from their homes.