Gangland shootings: How bad is it where you are?

Gang violence is turning out to be a greater means of population control than drunk driving!

 

Very good point. I think that's among the biggest problems facing inner-city neighborhoods right now. It's making it so these neighborhoods can't get cleaned up.

 

This really deserves its own thread (and probably already has one, but I don't have time to look), but Ray Nagin says it's part of the "New Orleans brand":

http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/nagin_calls_nos_dangerous_imag.html

Really, really stunning.

 

Ray Nagin isn't even good enough to be called a douche.
Lots of gang violence in my city, but it all happens in one fairly well contained area.
That one zip code accounts for about 70 pecent of all the violent crime in town and about 85 percent of the murders.
Ninerville, as some know it, has it all - murders, rapes, roving bands of warring gangs, drug dealing, pretty much everything. Cops can't seem to be able to do anything about it. Don't know why.

 

Because they want to protect the brand, silly.

 

I know it as oh-ninerville, but you are correct.