New Orleans Cracking Down on Crime

Looks like Nagin's chocolete city is melting...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/jan/10/011008074.html

Alarmed at the city's nearly one-a-day homicide rate, Mayor Ray Nagin declared a crackdown on violent crime, with more police on the streets, more surveillance cameras and a better effort to speed cases through the courts, but no curfew.

"We are drawing a line in the sand, saying enough is enough," Nagin said Tuesday. "We're going to put all our resources to focus on murder and violent crime."

The mayor addressed the city's continuing crime problem just a few steps from where blood stains mark the spot of the Jan. 1 killing of 28-year-old Corey Hayes, one of nine homicides in New Orleans in the first eight days of this year. The city counted 161 homicides in 2006.

Nagin said he would pull more police officers off desk jobs and pairing them with Orleans Parish Sheriff's deputies on the streets.