Rant

New Orleans was one of the top ten most violent cities in the US. And when they needed our help, we were there. Now every day someone in Houston is carjacked and/or killed in an apartment parking lot on the SW side. In all fairness, I can't say what proportion of these animals are from Houston, New Orleans, Mexico, or somewhere else. I don't know, because HPD hasn't caught them. In fact, they recently let a convicted killer on death row escape by walking out the front door of the prison. How many more have to die before the mayor stops talking about it and does something substantial? We could run DNA tests, but our lab is corrupt. Our safe & clear plan needs to be a zero-tolerance, clean-up-the-streets plan. So far the violence is mostly contained in SW Houston and a few isolated pockets. Don't the honest people there deserve protection? Come on mayor! Stop it now before it gets out of control. Spend money if you have to.

Today a fight between New Orleans students and Houston students at a local high school led to 30 arrests. In order to keep things even, they arrested 15 H-towners and 15 NOs. But get this: According to the Houston Chronicle, "Of the 15 Houston students arrested, 12 were boys and two were girls. Thirteen girls and two boys from New Orleans were arrested." I don't know what's more disturbing, that the 12 Houston boys were apparently fighting with 13 New Orleans girls, or that the Chronicle has a profound inability to perform basic math.

Stop the madness!