Crime on the rise
by The Panda Man · 10/10/2006 12:06 pmKTRK-TV has put its “Crime Tracker” on the case of rising crime on Houston’s west side.
It’s the portion of Houston’s west side loosely bordered by the Katy Freeway, the Westpark Tollway, Gessner and the city’s west border. Overall violent crimes are up 4.7 percent for the first eight months of 2006 versus 2005.
The greatest gain — murders. They’re up to 15 from 9 the year before. That’s an increase of nearly 67%. A third of the homicides in this part of town happened near Westpark and the beltway.
Aggravated assaults are also on the rise. They’re up to 380 from 330. That’s an increase of more than 15%.
Rapes are up slightly — 12%.
Let’s see, murder up 67%, assaults up 15%, and rapes up 12%. Was there any good news?
Only robberies have decreased, and only by 4%.
Great, I feel safer already.
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Are some of the murders robberies where the victim was killed and then it beomes a murder?
Can you say Katrina. I know you can.
Yea, well at least we have red light cameras and a no chase policy.
What else is new? Just be careful and very aware of your surroundings as you go about work, running errands, etc. Be suspicious of everyone you are not familiar with, but don’t go paranoid.
#4 and carry a gun and know how to use it.
But as Mayor White would point out, robbery crimes are DOWN, therefore the city is safer now than before! And he continues to get a pass.
And you wonder why the story of Chief Hurtt resigning has surfaced. The chief obviously didn’t count on the Katrina people affecting his crime numbers. Maybe instead of being “PC”, the mayor can hire the most competent person out there. I’ll bet that’s a theory that never crossed Mayor White’s mind.
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No because the most competent person would probably be a conservative and White would never go for that.
Let me see if I understand the police department’s command structure, the mayor picks the police chief and the police chief picks his immediate staff. So if each level consists of “yes” men, then the rise in crime is Mayor White’s problem and he replaces or fires the police chief who becomes the scapegoat for the mayor. Gosh city government is efficient!!!! Does anybody know when we had a competent police chief? Because it certainly isn’t Hurtt or then Bradford, Watson, Brown—did I leave out any other incompetent persons???
8-you mean like the competent conservatives who are runnig the war in Iraq? You mean the competent conservatives who turned our national surplus into a deficit? You mean the competent conservatives who are protecting the borders? I could go on forever
Ok yellow…. show me a competent law enforcement official that is a lefty.
Oh, and by the way, the liberal elitists in charge of our local gubmint have done such a frickin wonderful job of that too haven’t they? Hmm?
Sam Nuchia was the last competent Chief. The two before him were also morons.
That crime checker thing is a little misleading… Most of the crimes are concentrated around Westpark and Gessner, a small area of that grid.
The area they were showing really could be divied into four areas, three of which don’t have much crime. Briar Forest should be one dividing line, Dairy Ashford the other
I just moved from this area last May. The “element” is all over the place and my wife and I feel like we have been reborn. What a pitiful mess.
Yellow-cur
You mean like the competent Dhimmicrats that gave N Korea a Nuclear power plant?
10 Yellowdog, I basted your fanny yesterday regarding your ignorant/uninformed post on Beirut/Grenada. You back for more?
I wonder if any of these crime stats include job site theft. On one job (Beltway 8 W. @ Belfort), we had to hire a security guard for three nights to babysit $14K worth of copper until the power company energized it. So far, they do not steal live wire. If they see un-connected wire hanging from a service pole, our amateur commodity traders tie a pickup on to the service and jerk the whole thing off the building. That $2 bill paying scrap metal guy needs jail time for encouraging this.
The rental company we deal with has GPS locaters on all their equipment now. When they first installed these, their stolen equipment was going to New Orleans. Catching a couple of the thieves seems to have stopped the problem. For them, at least.
What the building contractors lose is even worse. The quantities of lumber, cinder block, doors, windows, etc. is absurd. And tools,… but I’m starting to rant. Time to open a Red Stripe.
That $2 scrap metal guy Dennis is much more of a jacka$$ in person once you get to know him. He made his money the old fashioned way. He inherited it. No one I know that knows him can stand him.
so what do you have for me BigIron?
how about logic, facts and sense compared “feelings”, slander and mindless rantings.
I’ve never known a conservative yet who let “facts” get in the way of proving his point.
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Perhaps you favor bringing back that ultimate “competent Democrat” Lee. P. Brown. to shore up the police department?