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The Way We See It - August 2006
August 15, 2006 *updated Monday-Friday (unless it's a slow day)
Lil Wayne Arrested - Katrina Survivors Blamed For Houston's Crime Rate - 1:41 p.m.

Lil Weezy aka the best damn rapper period (his words, your laughter) was arrested on drug charges yesterday, today, last week. Tell me, does it really matter? The kid's middle name ain't Sosa, those unspecified drug charges probably amounted to one saliva soaked blunt in the backseat of the Rover. That's good news for his fans in Cincinnati who will not have to take back the new sneakers and white tees they bought for the Baby and Wayne show on the 17th, Philly, Washington... Weezy's gonna be there for you baby!

When he gets out he might want to give his evacuee buddies in Houston a hand with their bail and lawyer fees too.. *Insert Chris Rock "Help six brothers out!"*

Houston police have blamed a 17.5% jump in crime on those unbelievably care free and rowdy Hurricane Katrina evacuees. You know, the ones who promptly grabbed that $2000 FEMA debit card and took it to the strip bar, Best Buy, and popped the Cristal and Billy burgers (what boycott?)

Louisiana bounty hunter James Martin rummages through the ruins of New Orleans looking for clues to the whereabouts of some of his suspects, and frequently finds himself on the highway to Texas to snatch up his prey. "I don't think Texas really knows what they got," Martin said.

What they got was 250,000 evacuees, with many of them being moved to other states and some leaving on their own, the New Orleans folks number rests around 150,000.

Since they've settled down in their new surroundings, crime has been on an upward trend. Incredibly, since July 25th, 2005 there have been 252 homicides, 21% of them have involved an evacuee as either a victim or a suspect. What I'd like to know is how many soldiers have died in Iraq since that time. Seriously, stupid don't know, but that's the waste of space they represent. Killing each other over who owes who $200 hundred dollars; boo-boo arguing with too-too over some chicken wing argument - not the actual wings, but an argument lacking in real meat, like that piece of the bird. Long as it comes with fries it's all good. I'm hungry.

Truth be told many of the people that are forced to stay in Houston are some of the poorest people from New Orleans. Some sick and physically unable to run around, all their belongings washed away. And with poverty comes all kinds of social issues as well. It's like peanut butter and jelly, one don't come without the other.

It sound crazy but what you think - negative vs. positive mind state does matter.

It's also crazy to say that negative usually wins out in a crowd. Put a hundred thousand people together and the minority willing to act on their horse shit will stand out from the positive anytime.

That's why when I read articles that say those that left New Orleans on their own are doing better than those who stayed I want to tell them what a big brain they have, in a Pulp Fiction kind of way.

Houston's police officials say they don't know what kind of home training these people have or what they're used to regarding the law, but this is the land of the cowboys, these terrorists.. umm, evacuees are gonna be brought to justice.

"New Orleans allowed a lot of these guys to stay on the street for whatever reason or be picked up and released after 60 days," said Capt. Dale Brown, who oversees Houston's homicide division. "Texas law, I don't want to say it's tougher, but we take these offenses very seriously."

James Martin's partner in corralling chimed in with.. "I think some saw (Katrina) as an opportunity. No one knows who they are over here."

That might not be clear, but it's so clear where the money is.. in law enforcement. To date $18 million has been spent to fight the new rise in crime. In June, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed off on an additional $19.9 million.

Not to say this is all about the money.

At least one evacuee, Vincent Wilson of the much better worded.. Katrina Survivors Association (time to start using that) was impressed. He said that in New Orleans before Katrina, "everyone knows that if the jail's crowded you get a slap on the hand and get released."

So now they'll spend time in jail like Weezy. If they can catch him on the 24 hour turnaround.

You know they can't keep the shooter from shining.

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