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Ga vooral door in dit topic. Hoe meer notes, hoe makkelijker je ban aan te vragen is.quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 11:58 schreef Sidekick het volgende:
Kutcookies, .
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Nature's crime fighter: Hurricane Katrina
By Adam Nossiter The New York Times
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005
NEW ORLEANS On a single day last June in Pigeon Town and Hollygrove - impoverished neighborhoods of worn frame houses at the western edge of this city - four men were killed, adding to the eight already slain there this year. Young men brazenly sold drugs from street corners, in broad daylight. The gunfire was constant. Residents were fearful.
But the bullets, the drugs and the fear are gone now, swept away by Hurricane Katrina, along with the dealers and gangs and most of the people.
There has not been a single killing in this violence-prone neighborhood, or anywhere else in New Orleans, since the chaos that immediately followed Hurricane Katrina subsided.
New Orleans, the nation's most dangerous city, has suddenly become perhaps its safest, and what had easily been the murder capital of the United States now has a murder rate of exactly zero.
Although several people were believed to have been killed in the disorder that followed the floods for several days, the last killing officially recorded by the police was on Aug. 27, two days before the hurricane hit. A bar owner was found shot to death that day in his establishment on Magazine Street.
And when the city was finally evacuated, the criminals left, too.
Since then about 60,000 to 80,000 residents have returned, a fraction of the city's previous population of 450,000. What is remarkable to criminologists, though, is how few criminals seem to be among them.
Peter Scharf, executive director of the Center for Society, Law and Justice at the University of New Orleans, estimated that there were as many as 20,000 participants in the city's drug culture before the storm. Those drug users and dealers were the engines of the city's crime, Scharf said, but are now largely absent. No one is certain where they wound up.
U.S. federal agents and police officials elsewhere say there have not been any noticeable spikes in crime in the cities that took in large numbers of hurricane refugees, including Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and other cities in the southeastern United States.
What is known is that many of the most impoverished, crime-ridden sections of New Orleans remain largely empty, in part because the expense of returning and repairing homes is beyond the means of previous residents.
There is no precise precedent for this transformation in the crime rate, law enforcement officials and academic experts say. While the few residents who have returned are holding their breath to see how long it lasts, the sudden change has become a subject of intense interest for those who study crime.
"This is one of the most interesting experiments in crime we've ever seen," Scharf said. "Without effective courts, corrections or rehabilitation, we have reduced the crime rate by 100 percent."
Hurricane Katrina, Scharf continued, "was one of the greatest crime-control tools ever deployed against a high-crime city."
Before the storm, New Orleans was reeling, with a daily round of killings and gunfire as bad as any in the city's history; Scharf projected that without the hurricane there would have been 316 killings in the city in 2005.
After a brief hiatus in the mid-1990s, the city's murder rate shot back up: in 2004 it was 59 murders per 100,000 population, compared with 7 per 100,000 in New York, giving New Orleans the highest murder rate in the United States, according to the FBI.
Now, police officers are answering some calls for domestic disputes and responding to a few looting complaints. But the whine of sirens, the sound of police cars rushing to a killing scene, is gone.
And the New Orleans police department, badly shaken by desertions and looting after the hurricane, has much more time for training, said a department spokesman, Marlon Defillo.
"The calls for service are not violent in nature," he said. "Overall, the officers are not seeing violence."
In Pigeon Town, the sound of hammers and demolition equipment - signs of the reconstruction of homes - mix with pounding radios. Some residents have returned, but one segment is conspicuous by its absence.
"The dope men, like, they're out of town," said Nona Ivey, a resident of General Ogden Street, sipping a beer on her front porch.
"We're hoping they don't come back."
Still, some veteran New Orleans observers caution against jubilation over this precipitous drop in crime. It might not last, for one thing. And even if it does, the manner in which it was achieved is troubling, they say.
"Both the perpetrators and the victims have been washed out," said Lawrence Powell, a historian at Tulane University here.
"We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way."
That, Powell said, was too high a price to pay.
"The fact that it would take a world-historic tragedy to solve your crime problem does not speak well for the civic culture," he said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/10/news/crime.php
By Adam Nossiter The New York Times
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005
NEW ORLEANS On a single day last June in Pigeon Town and Hollygrove - impoverished neighborhoods of worn frame houses at the western edge of this city - four men were killed, adding to the eight already slain there this year. Young men brazenly sold drugs from street corners, in broad daylight. The gunfire was constant. Residents were fearful.
But the bullets, the drugs and the fear are gone now, swept away by Hurricane Katrina, along with the dealers and gangs and most of the people.
There has not been a single killing in this violence-prone neighborhood, or anywhere else in New Orleans, since the chaos that immediately followed Hurricane Katrina subsided.
New Orleans, the nation's most dangerous city, has suddenly become perhaps its safest, and what had easily been the murder capital of the United States now has a murder rate of exactly zero.
Although several people were believed to have been killed in the disorder that followed the floods for several days, the last killing officially recorded by the police was on Aug. 27, two days before the hurricane hit. A bar owner was found shot to death that day in his establishment on Magazine Street.
And when the city was finally evacuated, the criminals left, too.
Since then about 60,000 to 80,000 residents have returned, a fraction of the city's previous population of 450,000. What is remarkable to criminologists, though, is how few criminals seem to be among them.
Peter Scharf, executive director of the Center for Society, Law and Justice at the University of New Orleans, estimated that there were as many as 20,000 participants in the city's drug culture before the storm. Those drug users and dealers were the engines of the city's crime, Scharf said, but are now largely absent. No one is certain where they wound up.
U.S. federal agents and police officials elsewhere say there have not been any noticeable spikes in crime in the cities that took in large numbers of hurricane refugees, including Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and other cities in the southeastern United States.
What is known is that many of the most impoverished, crime-ridden sections of New Orleans remain largely empty, in part because the expense of returning and repairing homes is beyond the means of previous residents.
There is no precise precedent for this transformation in the crime rate, law enforcement officials and academic experts say. While the few residents who have returned are holding their breath to see how long it lasts, the sudden change has become a subject of intense interest for those who study crime.
"This is one of the most interesting experiments in crime we've ever seen," Scharf said. "Without effective courts, corrections or rehabilitation, we have reduced the crime rate by 100 percent."
Hurricane Katrina, Scharf continued, "was one of the greatest crime-control tools ever deployed against a high-crime city."
Before the storm, New Orleans was reeling, with a daily round of killings and gunfire as bad as any in the city's history; Scharf projected that without the hurricane there would have been 316 killings in the city in 2005.
After a brief hiatus in the mid-1990s, the city's murder rate shot back up: in 2004 it was 59 murders per 100,000 population, compared with 7 per 100,000 in New York, giving New Orleans the highest murder rate in the United States, according to the FBI.
Now, police officers are answering some calls for domestic disputes and responding to a few looting complaints. But the whine of sirens, the sound of police cars rushing to a killing scene, is gone.
And the New Orleans police department, badly shaken by desertions and looting after the hurricane, has much more time for training, said a department spokesman, Marlon Defillo.
"The calls for service are not violent in nature," he said. "Overall, the officers are not seeing violence."
In Pigeon Town, the sound of hammers and demolition equipment - signs of the reconstruction of homes - mix with pounding radios. Some residents have returned, but one segment is conspicuous by its absence.
"The dope men, like, they're out of town," said Nona Ivey, a resident of General Ogden Street, sipping a beer on her front porch.
"We're hoping they don't come back."
Still, some veteran New Orleans observers caution against jubilation over this precipitous drop in crime. It might not last, for one thing. And even if it does, the manner in which it was achieved is troubling, they say.
"Both the perpetrators and the victims have been washed out," said Lawrence Powell, a historian at Tulane University here.
"We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way."
That, Powell said, was too high a price to pay.
"The fact that it would take a world-historic tragedy to solve your crime problem does not speak well for the civic culture," he said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/10/news/crime.php
Oh Godslasteraar, ik reageer nog wel op je post, maar heb op het moment even geen zin om lange teksten door te nemen, en een uitgebreid antwoord te formuleren. Wees gerust, je moeite is niet voor niets geweest. Reageren zal ik, daar ik het uiteraard niet met je eens ben.
Wouter Bos heeft niet zoveel haargroei. Wouter is een male pussycat.quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 11:58 schreef Sidekick het volgende:
Zoveel cadeautjes op kosten van anderen aan de bevolking geven en met zoveel allochtone negers in zijn achterban komen aanzetten; ik dacht even dat Wouter Bos naar Sneek is gekomen.
Als mod kan ik met veel meer wegkomen gelukkig. Daardoor blijf ik ook aan als mod ook al ben ik veel te weinig aanwezig en vrijwel niets inhoudelijks toevoeg.quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 12:02 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:
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Ga vooral door in dit topic. Hoe meer notes, hoe makkelijker je ban aan te vragen is.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic - Joseph Stalin
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun - Mao Zedong
I will eat the headdoekjes rauw - Geert Wilders
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun - Mao Zedong
I will eat the headdoekjes rauw - Geert Wilders
Zwarte piet!quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 12:18 schreef George-Butters het volgende:
* George-Butters is playing Bloc Party - Banquet
Inderdaad je bent mijn voornaamste concurrent voor de Erica trofeequote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 12:22 schreef Sidekick het volgende:
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Als mod kan ik met veel meer wegkomen gelukkig. Daardoor blijf ik ook aan als mod ook al ben ik veel te weinig aanwezig en vrijwel niets inhoudelijks toevoeg.
Niet volgens de stichter van de King Dynastie zelf, hoor.quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 12:24 schreef George-Butters het volgende:
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Inderdaad je bent mijn voornaamste concurrent voor de Erica trofee
No worries, óf en wanneer je reageert is geheel jouw keuze.quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 12:12 schreef kLowJow het volgende:
Oh Godslasteraar, ik reageer nog wel op je post, maar heb op het moment even geen zin om lange teksten door te nemen, en een uitgebreid antwoord te formuleren. Wees gerust, je moeite is niet voor niets geweest. Reageren zal ik, daar ik het uiteraard niet met je eens ben.
Daarbij ben ik wederom tot een (miniscuul) nieuw inzicht gekomen, en dat vergt enige geestelijke verwerking.
Johan aka The Riddlequote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 12:27 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:
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Niet volgens de stichter van de King Dynastie zelf, hoor.
de VS heeft haar grillen, zo ook China, wel meteen een stuk extremer:
http://www.nrc.nl/buitenland/artikel/1131689212292.htmlquote:China blaast marxisme weer leven in
Door onze correspondent
PEKING, 12 NOV. De communistische partij van China heeft een groot project op poten gezet om de ideologische beginselen van het marxisme nieuw leven in te blazen.
Dat heeft het Chinese tijdschrift Visie op het Oosten onlangs gemeld.
Het project gaat in de aanloopfase omgerekend al zeker tien miljoen euro kosten. ,,Welk bedrag er ook gevraagd wordt, het zal worden gegeven'', aldus een academicus die bij het project is betrokken.
Het project lijkt een enigszins verkrampte poging om het ideologisch uitgeholde Chinese systeem van een nieuwe, meer actuele, maar nog steeds in essentie marxistisch-leninistische theoretische basis te voorzien. De communistische partij ontleent haar legitimiteit momenteel vooral aan de economische groei die zij met een kapitalistisch beleid weet te creëren.
Een team van driehonderd wetenschappers moet nu de publicatie van dertien nieuwe universitaire lesboeken gaan verzorgen. Daarmee moet de relevantie van het ,,hedendaagse Chinese marxisme'' voor onder meer filosofie, rechten, politieke economie, geschiedenis, literatuur en journalistiek worden overgebracht op universitaire studenten, de toekomstige politieke en economische elite.
De teksten moeten vóór publicatie worden goedgekeurd door het permanent comité van het politbureau, de groep van China's negen hoogste partijleiders.
Het gaat niet alleen om de creatie van een nieuwe orthodoxie in onderwijsteksten, maar om een veel bredere campagne om het marxisme weer meer centraal in de maatschappij te stellen. Zo wordt het Instituut voor Marxisme, dat valt onder China's belangrijkste denktank, de Chinese Academie voor Sociale Wetenschappen, sterk uitgebreid. Het krijgt ook de status van een zelfstandige academie en zal als zodanig op 26 december, de verjaardag van voormalig leider Mao Zedong, worden geopend.
Er komt verder een nieuwe, tiendelige vertaling van de werken van Marx en Engels. Dat is een directe vertaling uit het Duits, niet zoals vroeger uit het Russisch. Ook Lenins werken worden opnieuw uitgegeven.
Partijleden zullen zich nu opnieuw moeten verdiepen in een ideologie die voor de meesten haar relevantie volledig heeft verloren.
12 november 2005
hier begint de decemberellende al. Sint Maarten en zwarte Piet in het land van Lange Baas en Frans B.
Verdonk: we moet weer lachen om ons loonstrookje :')
Verdonk: niet links, ik ben niet rechts, maar recht door zee
journalist: niet scheel?
Verdonk: niet links, ik ben niet rechts, maar recht door zee
journalist: niet scheel?
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President Camacho
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Gouverneur van Alabama riep van de week ook al op tot n boycot.quote:
Alsof Alabama gaat zoeken met F16's als er een neger kwijt is
hypocriet
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quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 13:10 schreef Yildiz het volgende:
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Alsof Alabama gaat zoeken met F16's als er een neger kwijt is
"I reject your reality and substitute my own"- Adam Savage
Ja toch? Toevallig is het nu een aandoenelijke blonde, christelijk opgevoedde blonde chick (die wel eens eerder van huis rende maar dat maakt niet uit) en als die kwijt is, en je zoekt maar met 7000 man, en wat F16's, is dat natuurlijk veel te weinig, en dat is dé logische reden om te boycotten.quote:
Wij roepen toch ook niet op tot een boycot van New Orleans?
Even wat anders.
domme Afrikanen verbouwen verkeerde gewassen toch weer typisch
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.quote:Op zaterdag 12 november 2005 13:10 schreef Yildiz het volgende:
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Gouverneur van Alabama riep van de week ook al op tot n boycot.
Alsof Alabama gaat zoeken met F16's als er een neger kwijt is
hypocriet
.Amerikanen zijn meestal hypocriet he.
Lerares veroordeeld na misbruik leerling
Gore moraalridders die vrouwen gelijk stellen aan mannen .
President Camacho
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Tering, die moet op direet.
President Camacho
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