New Orleans, la ciutat més segura del món
novembre 11th, 2005 Desactiva els comentaris
New Orleans Crime Swept Away, With Most of the People – THE NEW YORK TIMES
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 country’s murder capital 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.
“This is one of the most interesting experiments in crime we’ve ever seen,” Mr. Scharf said. “Without effective courts, corrections or rehabilitation, we have reduced the crime rate by 100 percent.”
Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Scharf continued, “was one of the greatest crime-control tools ever deployed against a high-crime city.”
“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.
