Crime in Alexandria
The debate tomorrow concerns crime in Alexandria. What are your thoughts on crime in Alexandria? The drug problem? The police chief? Police patrol?
Crime in Alexandria
The debate tomorrow concerns crime in Alexandria. What are your thoughts on crime in Alexandria? The drug problem? The police chief? Police patrol?
CenLamar 
I believe that the drug problem is not only rampant in Alexandria, but has grown tremendously over the years, throughout the entire parish. The rural areas are just as bad as Alexandria.
so please define crime.
most folks here say that Alexandria has an unusual high crime rate.
I believe that Alexandria’s crime is divide into geographical areas.
Does Charles Park have high crime, does the Garden District have a high crime rate.
The answer is no to both.
The crime rate here in Alexandria is tied to the socio ecom system that stil exist here.
With a better educational system, with more jobs, with less class diversity, we will improve our lives.
Most of the crime here, is in the areas of highest poverty.
Infested with drug dealers, drug users, and no hope of gaining upward mobility.
It seems we really haven’t changed in the last 100 years.
the Sonya Qtrs are still the Sonya Qtrs.
FBI stats say we have a problem.
WILL THIS BE ON COMEDY CENTRAL CHANNEL 4….. LAMAR I THINK YOU DO A GREAT JOB…. KEEP IT GOING..
Crime in every area of the United States is born from an inherent laziness among the criminals. They would much rather roam the streets and sell drugs than work. Why work when the government makes it so attractive just to lay around and draw a check. What the government doesn’t provide, they go out and steal or sell drugs, etc. Every citizen in America has the same opportunities for an education, but we’ve created a society of giveaway programs which foster laziness.
I agree. The biggest problem in our society is the gross misuse of the welfare system. Booker T. Washington predicted this, you know.
Some of these people live in a whole different world than we live in. Success (financial or otherwise) is not even an aspiriation. They only have the desire to get by and have fun. Many of them gratify every need and/or want they have without any thought of consequences or the future. Who cares about preparing for the future if they can get free housing, free food and free medical care.
Our government has created a monster. I see no end in sight.
Amen!!
Apparently you have never heard of the welfare reform legislation that was passed not only at the federal level but at our state level also. Our state had 92,000 cases on welfare in 1994. Currently, the state now has less than 7500 cases statewide. ..and the average payment PER MONTH PER FAMILY is $190 a month. They also have to participate in a work program in order to receive benefits. check it out:
http://www.dss.state.la.us/Documents/OFS/fy0506_FITAP_SFY_Totals.pdf
I have always found it interesting that I can ride the city streets and witness drug deals in the open and folks on bicycles dragging lawnmowers, other bicicles, and other items taken in burglaries. Since drug use often drives the rise in other crimes, I contend that is a good starting point to ferret out participants in nefarious activities. My question is that if it is so easy for me to see these things, then how come our law enforcement folks either don’t or choose to ignore the activity. Either one is a tremendous fallacy.
I have always found it interesting that I can ride the city streets and witness drug deals in the open and folks on bicycles dragging lawnmowers, other bicicles, and other items taken in burglaries. Since drug use often drives the rise in other crimes, I contend that is a good starting point to ferret out participants in nefarious activities. My question is that if it is so easy for me to see these things, then how come our law enforcement folks either don’t or choose to ignore the activity. Either one is a tremendous fallacy.
FBI stats say we have a crime problem for several reasons:
1) They are based on a population of 100,000 persons. Alexandria has less than 47,000 so in order to get to per 100,000 persons you have to multiply the number of incidents times 2.13 to get to the standard to start with. This gives the appearance that we have a much higher incident occurrence unless you know it is based on per 100,000 persons.
2) APD reports everything. By this I mean if I were to return home from work and found my back door open and called police to investigate, not knowing my husband had come home early, gone to cut the grass, realized there was not gas and left, leaving the back door open – thus NO CRIME – it would still be reported as an investigated break in. Now that example is an extreme but they report every call whether or not a charge is filed in domestic violence when they get there, a break in actually ocurred, etc.
3) Large metro areas generally don’t report all calls – only major offenses.
Let’s remember the rules of statistics – they can be skewed to get any outcome you wish – you have to look at the actual raw data to truly understand what you’re looking at and hope that you’re comparing apples to apples.
I have had numerous burglary and vandalism incidents over the past 10 years. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 occurrences, I lose count. Anyway, I had all the incidents pulled up and all were not there. Everytime I made a complaint, many times the responding officer wrote my name and DOB on his memo pad put it in his pocket. After a string of occurences, I had all calls pulled and about half existed as incident reports. Is it just me, possibly, but not likely. I have had officers tell me they were trying to keep the stats low by not reporting everthing. I am not blaming but we do have a crime problem. The math works even if we have only 47,000 people as the per 100K is for comparative purposes.
Anonymous is an idiot. You must have learned your math from Al Gore.
There are drugs everywhere ! Mainly opiates and amphetamine which is distroying our youth. Numbers don’t fix anything. I think some people are missing the point. I just wish i could see an officer looking for these people instead of talking to some cute girl at there favorite hangout. Then we wonder why there is a drug problem here. Wake up Alexandria !!!!