tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post6074058638522340754..comments2024-03-08T03:12:04.069-05:00Comments on da po' blog: A Downtick of Upticksda po' boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13639638708282388176noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-22198015876108908892023-08-23T08:54:18.720-05:002023-08-23T08:54:18.720-05:00This is a great post, thanks for sharing it. This is a great post, thanks for sharing it. Tracing Shapeshttps://tracingshapes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-8627339367849692402021-10-13T09:51:12.890-05:002021-10-13T09:51:12.890-05:00Thank you so much
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I know the NOPD counts one more murder than me, a woman found dead 01/03/07, but the coroner said she was killed in 2006. <BR/><BR/>So, if the T-P is getting their numbers from the police, then the paper is saying there were two more murders than I counted. The funny thing is, I use the T-P reports to get my numbers.<BR/><BR/>So, either I missed some reports or the T-P didn't report them. Most likely, I missed two reports.<BR/><BR/>If anyone knows what I missed, please let me know.da po' boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639638708282388176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-89032567167902029192007-07-03T08:29:00.000-05:002007-07-03T08:29:00.000-05:00The T-P says this morning we've reached 100, by th...The T-P says this morning we've reached 100, by the way...<BR/><BR/>http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/sunday_murder_citys_100th_of_2.html<BR/><BR/>As Mark Twain has said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. These are PEOPLE we are talking about here, not mere numbers. Throw in as many variables as you'd like. Bottom line is, these are unnatural deaths and it is within most people's power to do something about it. The city's recovery is at stake, not to mention our own lives...Leigh C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13654596932726420097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-8332473036841567242007-07-01T17:08:00.000-05:002007-07-01T17:08:00.000-05:00The weekend Murder rate will continue unabated.The weekend Murder rate will continue unabated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-19296783790446371742007-07-01T14:19:00.000-05:002007-07-01T14:19:00.000-05:00The problem is with publications like the TP boldl...The problem is with publications like the TP boldly declaring to the country that we are once again the "murder capital". We all know what that does to our ability to successfuly rebuild. I am not at all suggesting that we gloss over our problems with violent crime, but if per capita comparative analyses is the standard for informing public perception as to which cities are safe and which are not, then let's compare apples and apples. If 100,000 or so Orleans Parish residents still reside in the area and continue to interact with the city for job and other purposes, but now live just outside of the parish boundaries, then let's factor that into the determination as to the city's per capita murder rate. <BR/>Utilization of per capita measurements is valid only if all cities are measured by the same or comparable objective standards, but random and arbitrary political boundary determinations make that difficult and wholly unreliable. A better approach would be to compare murder rates among the nation's SMSAs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-87648025721232529982007-07-01T12:49:00.000-05:002007-07-01T12:49:00.000-05:00Interesting article about Baltimore.....155 murder...Interesting article about Baltimore.....155 murders so far this year...<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2yy2nd<BR/><BR/>From the article...<BR/><BR/><I>Yet the outrage is hard to find almost anywhere in the city - whether in thriving neighborhoods isolated from violence or in communities immersed in it.<BR/><BR/>In January, when New Orleans faced an escalating number of murders, nearly 3,000 people marched on City Hall. That same month, Baltimore's NAACP held an anti-violence rally. Fifty people showed.</I><BR/><BR/>--scoutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-41339426986541575852007-07-01T11:53:00.000-05:002007-07-01T11:53:00.000-05:00Statistics are merely statistics. They tell vario...Statistics are merely statistics. They tell various stories, depending how you read the numbers.<BR/><BR/>The story I would like to tell is that there is something wrong with the New Orleans criminal justice system when it comes to murders.<BR/><BR/>I agree that the “use of the 260,000 Orleans Parish population estimates to calculate Orleans murder rates creates a statistical anomaly.” That is the point of my post. I am not commenting on the safety of a person who lives, visits, or is traveling through New Orleans.<BR/><BR/>New Orleans shares an easily crossed border with Jefferson Parish. Going by JPSO stats, they have had 12 murders in 2007 as of June 1 (http://www.jpso.com/crimestats.htm). I know of at least one murder in Kenner in June, which makes at least 13 in JP for 2007. At the end of last year, the LRA set JP’s population at 97% of pre-Katrina levels, around 440,000 people.<BR/><BR/>If I were to include Jefferson Parish’s population and murders, how would that help me evaluate the efficiency of the New Orleans criminal justice system concerning murders?<BR/><BR/>JP and NOLA have different and separate criminal justice systems. They do cooperate, but the statistics present vastly different results when it comes to murders: New Orleans – pop. 262,000 with 93 murders in 2007. JP – pop. approx. 440,000 with at least 13 murders in 2007 (I do not know the exact number, but it is not approaching 93).<BR/><BR/>New Orleans is further isolated from JP given the level of devastation from Hurricane Katrina and the continued depopulation. Simply put, New Orleans’ situation is unique. I think including “the metropolitan population now at 91% of the pre-K level” into my evaluation of New Orleans would do more than create a statistical anomaly, but would skew the numbers in a way that would render them useless to make valid conclusions for my purpose.<BR/><BR/>I also think using St. Tammany Parish statistics is not useful for the same reasons. I would also add that Lake Pontchartrain presents a physical barrier that further isolates New Orleans and the parish.<BR/><BR/>As I said, I do not present these statistics in order to judge the relative safety of any given person in New Orleans. In fact, we know who is safe and who isn’t. Your example of setting “the parish boundaries for Orleans around Central City” speaks very much to the theme of my post.<BR/><BR/>Juvenile Court Judge David Bell told a Senate Judiciary Committee:<BR/><BR/><I>"We have a very violent city if you're between 18 and 35 years old, an African-American male, and you are involved in the drug trade,” he said. “But if you don't fall in that category, we are a very safe city."</I> (http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl062107tpsafe.5bdb00.html)<BR/><BR/>That also speaks to the theme of my post, which is why I write:<BR/><BR/><I>If nothing changes, 94 more human beings will die a violent death on the streets of New Orleans this year. And most of those who die will be African-American men, often young, and almost always they will be shot.</I><BR/><BR/>I do not think we disagree on the relative safety of a person in New Orleans. But that is not the story I am reading in these numbers.da po' boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639638708282388176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-50652480225582777722007-07-01T08:15:00.000-05:002007-07-01T08:15:00.000-05:00With the metropolitan population now at 91% of the...With the metropolitan population now at 91% of the pre-K level, use of the 260,000 Orleans Parish population estimates to calculate Orleans murder rates creates a statistical anomaly. While any murder is one too many, of course, we are not really a far more violent city than we were before the storm, as the raw data otherwise suggests. The high murder rate in N.O. murder is in part a function of the artificial setting of narrow parish boundaries, a constraint that many other cities do not share. Draw the parish boundaries for Orleans around Central City, and you will see rates that rival Baghdad, while the rest of Orleans magically becomes "safer".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com