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Post by abbd on Jul 14, 2006 12:48:58 GMT -6
Thought maybe we could start a thread on the increasing crime here in Lafayette. Maybe then the daily fish wrap's heh heh heh crack investigative reporters will give us updates on how the administration is doing fighting crime(didn't joey said just recently that he is much more atuned to crime here, about time huh?). There are a few murders unsolved just from the last few months, anyone have any information on these crimes? Or any other car-jackings, rapes or felony assaults you know viscious crimes on persons. Hey maybe chuck from TV10 will put on his dan rather look alike hunting vest (I guess it is anyway) and pose in front of some police cars and give us updates? Wonder if these crimes had been done to puppy dogs if blue might have investigated? Hey I'm not sure what it would take to get hoyt interested, do y'all?
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Post by abbd on Jul 17, 2006 11:49:52 GMT -6
Looks like Lafayette's crime wave is continuing. I just read about an 81 year old man who's death is being classified as a possible homicide. Yes we are becoming new orleans, when the thugs start preying on the elderly we have reached crime epidemic status. Wonder if joey is interested in crime now? How safe are we in our homes. Forget fiber, fight crime. Fighting crime is REALLY for the children joey.
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Post by ronnief on Jul 17, 2006 15:29:25 GMT -6
Yes, the crime is continuing, and that's just the police department. There will be no change from the LPD if Craft gets appointed, just a different clique will be in charge. On the other side of the coin, if an outsider is appointed as a resuly of Joey D's national search, the morale will be shot. Is a no win situation under current circumstances. Again, why is the Sheriff invisible? He should be out reassuring the public that if the city cannot do the job, then he will. But he is not stepping up.
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Post by str8up50 on Jul 17, 2006 15:30:20 GMT -6
I completely agree with the above posts. Seems that this new COMSTAT program that Hundley developed needed to go out the door as he did. I have heard nothing but complaints from police officers, saying that the new program did nothing but create new supervisor positions and few road officers. Seems that the council was tricked in allowing this program to begin. Hundley stated that the program would put 50 more officers on the street. Seems that did not happen exactly, as the numbers that were presented to the Council grouped administrative positions into that number. I spoke to one officer asking him about the so called 50 additional officers, and he stated that it was all a smoke screen. I think that LCG should put a greater emphasis on crime prevention and quit taking away from LPD. Seems that there budget is getting smaller, officers are having to double up in units because there are no cars available or they are all broke. Once officer I spoke too had over 145,000 miles on his assigned unit. I'm sure he feels safe!!! Its a shame that the department is still some 30 officers short of full capacity. I would like the Council to approach the Interim Chief and request a breakdown of the enitre department. I am not worried how many officers are in the administration or detectives, I want to know how many officers are actually WORKING on the street. Furthermore, what ever happened to this milleage that was passed by voters to increase the PD and FD pay and benifits. Are you telling me that all the money that is in this account, that should be utilized by LCG for their pay and benifits is still not enough to get LPD to full staff. Or is it that LCG is holding onto the money, and spending the interest accurred on lunch.
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Post by ronnief on Jul 17, 2006 16:09:07 GMT -6
With over 500 deputy sheriff's and over 200 city police, we should have an ample police presence, Fact is, a very small percentage of these people actually work the road in marked units. Request that information from each agency; you will be surprised. Is approximately 1/4 of the fleet. Many cars are just for rank to commute. Even the E-911 has 4 or 5 cars. What do they need that for? The respond to nothing.
I have over 150,000 miles on my car, and would drive to California tomorrow (if joey would buy my gasoline). The car per man means that one officer is assigned the same vehicle, so if the car is in bad shape, that officer should blame himself. Same practice applies with the Sheriff's Office and LSP. That is how the car per man was sold to the public.
A massive reorganization needs to take place, but it will never happen. All of these people will justify their cars, their not working the roads or cases no matter how faulty the logic, and the newspaper will not question their justification. If a man has worked within the system for 20+ years, do you really expect that reorganization ? Abolish the LPD, turn it over to the Sheriff. At least he runs every 4 years, unlike the Chief. Let the Sheriff get rid of the dead weight.
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Post by abbd on Jul 28, 2006 7:51:42 GMT -6
Anyone else notice how crime in the surrounding Parishes is being constantly reported in Lafayette's news media(five day running article on "the west side" of New Iberia)? Ya think we don't have crime here or do you think the media is not reporting on our crime to lull the citizens into a false sense of security? Wonder how the murder investigations are going here in Lafayette? Hmmmmm interesting to me. P.S. Y'all been noticing all the people just hanging around by the strip malls, the local stop and robs and the "big box" stores parking lots? Reminds me more and more of Austin everyday(maybe joey is getting his wish of us becoming more like Austin(specially the gangs). Kinda scary to me. I don't like people just hanging out in parking lots specially at night.
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Post by coolboy on Jul 28, 2006 12:27:26 GMT -6
That's a great point, abbd. If anyone wants to see if crime is rampant in Lafayette, all they have to do is look under the "LOCAL ARRESTS" section of the paper. Do you know how many neighborhoods in Lafayette are exactly like (or worse than) west end in N.I.? I can name six right off the top of my head. Matter of fact, I can think of other nearby cities like Crowley, St. Martinville, Breaux Bridge, Opelousas, etc. that have horrible neighborhoods. Why they chose New Iberia...I don't know.
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Post by Taureau on Jul 28, 2006 12:59:07 GMT -6
The "Arrest Records" are only good for the ones that got caught. Kinda like fishing; how many got away? Sorry to say but there is no real indicator of crime in an area. You are correct; there have been lots of reporting about the West End of Iberia. Maybe they are "featuring" the West End. I my subdivision, on the South Side behind the New Hub City Diner had a few cars broken into and had a few things stolen. My neighbor informed me yesterday that last week at 2:00pm his house was burglarized. No one was there and he did not have an alarm system. The crook or crooks used a pry bar to gain entry into the home. Fortunately someone called and reported it. A TV was left on the ground outside; apparently was going to return and load it up. I did not see or hear any of this in the news, but I did hear more about the "West Side". I guess it is selective reporting (kinda like what my wife said about my hearing). Is there any thing we can do about the lack of reporting? I wonder if we reported it directly to the news media; would it be reported than? I am certain they would have to check it out before and if time or space is available, then they may or may not report it. Quel Courage!
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Post by TBEAR on Jul 28, 2006 17:33:17 GMT -6
Sure just for the heck of it next time your out and about take time to actually look around, there are a bunch of dead heads driving and walking around in Lafayette, looking for victims. And of course its not like the media wants to find anything wrong with Lafayette, but now we have a total of what 10 or 11 murders since the first of the year, dont only count the city limit murders which are at 7.
Joey's "welcome the people, welcome the people" give me a break, if he knew anything about trying to keep a society safe you dont invite new orleans 9th ward convicts to stay, all the good people left and now we are stuck with the non-working trash looking to steal money, identities, goods, and anything else they can get their hands on. GO check out some of the fema trailer parks on the northside of town in the early afternoon, Shilo, Heidi circle, etc you'll see your tax dollars at work. The unemployment rate is low in Lafayette because none of these people are looking for jobs they live off of us and when they dont have enough they steal it.
Now lets get to the little juvenile / and young adult bastards that have been ravaging Lafayette. Their mommas and daddys never gave a crap about raising them nor did they worry about what they were doing or where they were. You let that go on with a child from birth your gonna have problems. Then when they get caught doing something wrong, "my child didnt do that" , "I want my lawyer". Or you have the child born to the mother with four other kids with each different daddys and none of the daddys are around, thats a way to raise a children.
Well everyone here knows what im talking about so didnt mean to rant a bit but has to be done.
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Post by Taureau on Jul 28, 2006 17:54:59 GMT -6
T-Bear, You hit the nail on the head. Yes, our unemployed rate did go up just as all of the other cities and parishes did. Have you noticed all of the help wanted signs all over Lafayette? Something does not seem right; with all of the different jobs being bulletined or vacant and the unemployment his up higher than last month. Do you think that some people may be getting some FEMA money and so they think they do not have to work any more? I did see or hear about several hundred prisoners getting some Millions of FEMA dollars by mistake. The person or persons making the mistake should be their last one. No excuse for that!
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Post by TBEAR on Jul 29, 2006 7:37:16 GMT -6
They are not working and sleeping all day, take my word for it. The one I talked to yesterday in one of the trailer parks, living in a fema trailer and is from Lake Charles, has no job and is shacked up with some dude.
Her momma lives in Lake Charles so why doesnt she move back. Because she told me, why should she, she is getting a check for three kids, none of the kids are for the dude shes living with right now, and fema is going to allow her to stay in the trailer for another 18 MONTHS!!! Hello, whats wrong with this picture. Btw it was 10:00 am and both of them were still sleeping as were several of the other fema trailer evacuees I had to talk to.
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Post by zoe10850 on Jul 29, 2006 13:07:43 GMT -6
Those kids you are referring to, TBear, are a good argument for abortion. People having kids they do not want, and turning them out on the streets, and expecting society to take care of them. Does not work. We are breeding criminals. Maybe we could house them in trailor parks in Iraq.
I will not vote for taxes for Joey D & Jabba to miss-use, but I would pay taxes for a bigger jail to house those miscreants in and pay salaries for deputies to keep them there. If it were up to me, you would see those inmates working all over town doing public projects like cutting grass and removing litter that Joey cannot seem to dowith his present staff (yes, he can handle a phone,cablecompany). If you go to Houma, you see an active sheriff who has inmates painting schools, power washing public buildings, litter control, repairing public pools, building public property, maintaining cemetaries. If we did not have an invisible sheriff in Lafayette, we could have the same. I for one think that if inmates are made to work for free, they may think working for minimum wage is better. Why not try?
I agree that the Advertiser has missplaced its focus. Lafayette is what should be addressed. I think the idea is let's distract people so they think the problem is worse elsewhere. I too have noticed a lot of "hanging around" by people with their underwear exposed and loud use of profanity. I am not like Randy Menard's wife who was offended by Victoria Secret display in mall (after all Gwen, it is a store that sells lingerie) but a sense of civility and common courtesy must be maintained in the parish. Even the chief of police in Opelousas did not tolerate that type of behavior, and he was a minority so don't tell me we cannot do same.
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Post by TBEAR on Jul 29, 2006 14:24:26 GMT -6
Dang I missed something somewhere it was Randy Menards wife that complained about that, how juvenile, like thats all she has worry about.
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Post by abbd on Jul 31, 2006 10:36:05 GMT -6
That was a duncilman's wife that complained about the window in Victoria's Secret? You gotta be kidding me. I can see it now...duncilman introduces ANOTHER useless ordinance banning the showing of women's underwear on dummies in shopping malls. That law will be strictly enforced like ...the litter law...the blowing of grass clippings onto public right of ways law(exception lus crews using street sweepers)... the smoking in resturants law...the new sign law (banning more than one sign per house)etc. etc. etc.. Now I know why joey needs all those taxes..he's gotta hire 2,000 more policemen to enforce totally ridiculous "nanny state" laws. We gonna be Stepford real soon, I can see it now..joeyville where everything is absolutely ducky and the government takes everything ya got.
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Post by zoe10850 on Jul 31, 2006 12:30:04 GMT -6
Yes, Gwen Menard is the spouse of Randy Menard, Parish Councilman and an attorney. She wrote a letter to the editor complaining about the public display of lingerie in the mall. Every person is entitled to an opinion; Personally I think that is a bit prudish, but hey, as long as there are no ordinances passed to "curb" this tasteless diplay
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Post by TBEAR on Aug 1, 2006 7:12:13 GMT -6
Like my wife said what about all the dummies in sears, dillards, etc, that show bras and panties, how stupid.
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Post by coolboy on Aug 1, 2006 22:57:56 GMT -6
HAHA! I'm read that editorial when it came out and thought it was the funniest thing! Of all the things to complain about in Lafayette, she chooses a window display? I bet the people at the fishwrap knew it was a councilman's wife and thought it would be a good laugh to publish it. She must not have a life. The only thing that offends me in Victoria's Secret is the price of their clothes. I just realized how that sounded! I don't shop there. My wife does and I see the credit card charges at the end of the month.
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Post by RonS on Aug 2, 2006 17:11:17 GMT -6
Well, I guess we know what Randy Menard's home life is like.
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Post by zoe10850 on Aug 3, 2006 0:31:31 GMT -6
I also noticed Durel was asking for 1.2 million for new police cars. That is approx 82 new cars. How many are in our current fleet, and how many are marked units? And they work for "consolidated govt" but have no authority outside of city limits. Yet another reason to merge city pd into Sheriff's Office because the next issue will no doubt be a need for a tax to fund sheriff and likely a new jail as well.
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Post by April on Aug 24, 2006 17:30:42 GMT -6
when you buy 80 cars at one time, they wear out at one time. Now that is responsible planning.
I saw that the son of St Landry Parish Sheriff was arrested on a drug charge in Lafayette. She stated that she was aware of it and did not prevent arrest. That is not what I recall happening when our Sheriff's child was caught with drugs. I believe the whole thing disappeared. Now that is an innovative way to reduce crime stats.
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