TheBuzzCincy - 1230 WDBZ » new orleans http://thebuzzcincy.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:53:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 TheBuzzCincy - 1230 WDBZhttp://your-img-here.com/http://thebuzzcincy.com NOLA Mayor: “More Likely To Be Killed Here Than Afghanistan” http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/nola-mayor-more-likely-to-be-killed-here-than-afghanistan/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/nola-mayor-more-likely-to-be-killed-here-than-afghanistan/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:54:20 +0000 Lincoln Ware http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/nola-mayor-more-likely-to-be-killed-here-than-afghanistan/ NOLA Mayor: New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway Read more..]]> New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina.

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According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before shootings on Halloween night in the crowded French Quarter revealed to a larger public what was going on in poor neighborhoods around the city every week.”

There were 51 homicides per 100,000 residents here last year, compared with less than 7 per 100,000 in New York or 23 in similar-size Oakland, Calif.

“From September of last year to February of this year,” said Mayor Mitch Landrieu in a recent speech, after reciting a litany of killings from one city high school, “a student attending John McDonogh was more likely to be killed than a soldier in Afghanistan.”

The causes of the skyrocketing rate can be found in the economic devastation and social dislocation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Notorious corruption in the police department hasn’t helped, leading to a great mistrust between New Orleans’s citizenry and the force that is supposed to serve and protect them.

The narrower causes are less clear. There are no large organized gangs in town, nor are there major drug wars, though some killings are turf disputes over the drug market, made worse by the drastic reshuffling of the urban poor after Hurricane Katrina and the demolition of public housing projects.

Many killings in New Orleans are a result of conflicts and vendettas among small, loosely organized groups, the analysis concluded, but in nearly half the cases, the experts listed the primary motive as uncertain or unknown. Only about half the homicide cases are cleared.

In the end, its not the living who pay, but the victims:

The killers and their victims are overwhelmingly young black men, according to an analysis of homicide cases by outside experts last March, and sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance. As police officials frequently point out to the anger of some families, most victims and offenders had prior contacts with the police, often for violent crimes. Less than a quarter were listed as having a steady job.

Read More In The New York Times

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/nola-mayor-more-likely-to-be-killed-here-than-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Rapper Arrested Using Real Guns During Mock Robbery For Video http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/rapper-arrested-using-real-guns-during-mock-robbery-for-music-video/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/rapper-arrested-using-real-guns-during-mock-robbery-for-music-video/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:54:14 +0000 Lincoln Ware http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/rapper-arrested-using-real-guns-during-mock-robbery-for-music-video/ Rapper Arrested Using Real Guns During Mock Robbery For VideoNEW ORLEANS, LA.--A New Orleans rapper and seven others face criminal charges after they used real guns to simulate a robbery at a convenience store for music a video they were shooting. Danny Rogers, better known as "Lil Dee God's Gift," was acting out a mock robbery  armed with real, unloaded guns when someone passing by thought a real robbery was occurring and called 911.... Read more..]]> NEW ORLEANS, LA.–A New Orleans rapper and seven others face criminal charges after they used real guns to simulate a robbery at a convenience store for music a video they were shooting.

Danny Rogers, better known as “Lil Dee God’s Gift,” was acting out a mock robbery  armed with real, unloaded guns when someone passing by thought a real robbery was occurring and called 911.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies swarmed the parking lot, arresting Rogers, Chance Gomez, Yonael Santana, Timothy Kelly and Nidal Jamhour for Criminal Mischief.  Raassan Holmes, Frank Cheffen and Terrell Hogan face a charge of Illegal Carrying of a Concealed Weapon along with Criminal Mischief.

Read more at fox8live.com.

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/rapper-arrested-using-real-guns-during-mock-robbery-for-music-video/feed/ 0 Ray Nagin: I Regret Not Calling A Mandatory Evacuation Sooner http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/ray-nagin-i-regret-not-calling-a-mandatory-evacuation-sooner/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/ray-nagin-i-regret-not-calling-a-mandatory-evacuation-sooner/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:44:41 +0000 Lincoln Ware http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/ray-nagin-i-regret-not-calling-a-mandatory-evacuation-sooner/ Ray Nagin: I Regret Not Calling A Mandatory Evacuation SoonerSix years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and its surrounding communities, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin says he regrets not calling a mandatory evacuation sooner in a candid sit-down interview with BET.com. According to Nagin, his outspokenness made him an easy target and a scapegoat in many situations. "I was basically the last person stand... Read more..]]> Six years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and its surrounding communities, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin says he regrets not calling a mandatory evacuation sooner in a candid sit-down interview with BET.com.

According to Nagin, his outspokenness made him an easy target and a scapegoat in many situations.

“I was basically the last person standing that was one of the key leaders,” he said.

“There were open discussions about changing the social fabric of the city and very bold discussions about gentrification. I had to make a very tough decision to say that everybody had a right to return to the city of New Orleans and there was a heavy price I paid for that…”

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/ray-nagin-i-regret-not-calling-a-mandatory-evacuation-sooner/feed/ 1 Jury Convicts 5 Police Officers For Covering Up Katrina Murders http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/jury-convicts-5-police-officers-for-covering-up-katrina-murders/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/jury-convicts-5-police-officers-for-covering-up-katrina-murders/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:14:11 +0000 Lincoln Ware http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/jury-convicts-5-police-officers-for-covering-up-katrina-murders/ Jury Convicts 5 Police Officers For Covering Up Katrina MurdersNEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen, Officer Anthony Villavaso and retired Sgt. Arthur Kaufman were convicted of charges stemming from the cover-up of the shootings. All but Kaufman were... Read more..]]> NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen, Officer Anthony Villavaso and retired Sgt. Arthur Kaufman were convicted of charges stemming from the cover-up of the shootings. All but Kaufman were convicted of civil rights violations stemming from the shootings. Kaufman, who investigated the shootings, was charged only in the cover-up.

The trial was a high-profile test of the Justice Department’s effort to clean up a police department marred by a reputation for corruption and brutality. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes. Most of the cases center on actions during the aftermath of the Aug. 29, 2005, storm, which plunged the flooded city into a state of lawlessness and desperation.

The mother of 17-year-old James Brissette, one of the people killed on the bridge, said she was relieved by the verdict after “a long, hard six years.”

His mother, Sherrel Johnson, said she would now try to move on but lamented what her son would miss out on.

“For him there will be no prom, no baby, no nothing. My child will never have nothing,” she said.

The family of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old disabled man fatally shot on the bridge, said in a statement the family had waited six years to “find out what really happened on that bridge.”

Madison’s sister Jackie Madison Brown read the statement, which also said that after an event like Katrina, “all citizens, no matter what color or what class, deserve protection.”

After the verdict was read, Justice Department prosecutor Bobbi Bernstein became emotional, hugging the families of Madison and Brissette and holding hands with two of Madison’s sisters.

Sentencing was tentatively scheduled for Dec. 14. Kaufman remains free on bond until he is sentenced. The other four officers already are jailed and face possible life prison sentences.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said the verdict was critical to the city’s efforts to root out corruption. He said it sends a message that “public officials, and especially law enforcement officers, that they will be held accountable and that any abuse of power will have serious consequences.”

Defense attorney Roger Kitchens, who represented Villavaso, said he believed negative media coverage of the case tainted jurors.

“At this point, I don’t think it’s possible for a New Orleans police officer to get a fair trial in the city of New Orleans. And I don’t think they got one today,” he said.

Prosecutors contended during the five-week federal trial that officers shot unarmed people without justification and without warning, killing two and wounding four others on Sept. 4, 2005, then embarked on a cover-up involving made-up witnesses, falsified reports and a planted gun.

Defense attorneys countered that the officers were returning fire and reasonably believed their lives were in danger as they rushed to respond to another officer’s distress call less than a week after Katrina struck.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore Carter said in closing arguments Tuesday that police had no justification for shooting unarmed, defenseless people trying to cross the bridge in search of food and help mere days after Katrina struck.

“It was unreasonable for these officers to fire even one shot, let alone dozens,” he had said.

Defense attorneys argued, however, that police were shot at on the bridge before they returned fire.

“None of these people intentionally decided to go out there and cause people harm,” said Timothy Meche, Villavaso’s lawyer. He said they did their best, operating under “terrible, horrible circumstances” after Katrina.

Faulcon, the only defendant to testify, said he was “paralyzed with fear” when he shot and killed Madison, as he chased him and his brother, Lance Madison. Faulcon didn’t dispute that he shot an unarmed man in the back, but he testified that he had believed Ronald Madison was armed and posed a threat.

Prosecutors contended at trial that Kaufman retrieved a gun from his home weeks after the shootings and turned it in as evidence, trying to pass it off as a gun belonging to Lance Madison. He also is accused of fabricating two nonexistent witnesses to the shootings.

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/jury-convicts-5-police-officers-for-covering-up-katrina-murders/feed/ 0 New Orleans Tackles Public Housing Demand With New Plan http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-tackles-public-housing-demand-with-new-plan/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-tackles-public-housing-demand-with-new-plan/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:03:02 +0000 Lincoln Ware http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-tackles-public-housing-demand-with-new-plan/ New Orleans Tackles Public Housing Demand With New PlanNEW ORLEANS — The city of New Orleans is meeting its subsidized housing demand with a new plan. Instead of crowding families in large subsidized plots, the city is building and mixing subsidized homes among its unsubsidized residences. The city, which tore down all of its public housing developmen... Read more..]]> NEW ORLEANS — The city of New Orleans is meeting its subsidized housing demand with a new plan. Instead of crowding families in large subsidized plots, the city is building and mixing subsidized homes among its unsubsidized residences.

The city, which tore down all of its public housing developments in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,  has opened 900 homes so far and has plans to build another 3,100 homes for low-income New Orleans residents.

The benefit is that the new developments are in far better condition than previous ones. But some warn that this swift move could make it difficult for residents to find affordable housing.

Read more at BlackWomenToday.

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-tackles-public-housing-demand-with-new-plan/feed/ 0 New Orleans Commander Investigated For Racist Comments http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-commander-investigated-for-racist-comments/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-commander-investigated-for-racist-comments/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:27:02 +0000 Lincoln Ware http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-commander-investigated-for-racist-comments/ New Orleans Commander Investigated For Racist Comments NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Commander Eddie Selby resigned after being involved in allegations of inappropriate and racist comments. The Grio Reports: While giving instructions to his Special Operations Division this past Friday, Selby supposedly made some offensive comments about those attending the... Read more..]]>

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Commander Eddie Selby resigned after being involved in allegations of inappropriate and racist comments.

The Grio Reports:

While giving instructions to his Special Operations Division this past Friday, Selby supposedly made some offensive comments about those attending the Essence festival, which is a predominately African-American event.While the investigation was pending, Selby was moved to Deputy Chief Defillo’s office by Superintendent Ronal Serpas. Serpas personally saw to it that the members of Selby’s team were interviewed about the supposed slurs.

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/lincolnware/new-orleans-commander-investigated-for-racist-comments/feed/ 0 KEM Brings Out Ledisi During Essence Music Festival Performance http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/kem-brings-out-ledisi-during-essence-music-festival-performance/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/kem-brings-out-ledisi-during-essence-music-festival-performance/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:15:06 +0000 WDBZ 1230am http://thebuzzcincy.com/?p=1057792 KEM Brings Out Ledisi During Essence Music Festival PerformanceKem opened up day 3 of the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. While performing “If It’s Love” Kem brought out New Orlean's own Ledisi to cover what was originally Chrisette Michele's part from the studio version of the record. Check it out below! SOURCE: @ITSYAGIRLAC ALL ACCESS PASS Read more..]]> Kem opened up day 3 of the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. While performing “If It’s Love” Kem brought out New Orlean’s own Ledisi to cover what was originally Chrisette Michele’s part from the studio version of the record. Check it out below!
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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/kem-brings-out-ledisi-during-essence-music-festival-performance/feed/ 0 Trey Songz Pays Tribute to R&B Legends http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/trey-songz-pays-tribute-to-rb-legends/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/trey-songz-pays-tribute-to-rb-legends/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:00:52 +0000 WDBZ 1230am http://thebuzzcincy.com/?p=1057762 Trey Songz Pays Tribute to R&B LegendsTrey Songz was one of many artists at the 2011 Essence Music Festival who covered their favorite throwbacks and giving tribute to those who paved the way. One of Trey's cover tracks of the night was 'Freak'n You' by Jodeci. 'Freak'n You was o... Read more..]]> Trey Songz was one of many artists at the 2011 Essence Music Festival who covered their favorite throwbacks and giving tribute to those who paved the way. One of Trey’s cover tracks of the night was ‘Freak’n You’ by Jodeci.

‘Freak’n You was one of the group’s hottest records from their last full-length album together entitle “The Show, The After Party, The Hotel.”

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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/trey-songz-pays-tribute-to-rb-legends/feed/ 0 Chaka Khan Performs for the “Baby Daddies” at the Essence Music Festival http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/chaka-khan-performs-for-the-baby-daddies-at-the-essence-music-festival/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/chaka-khan-performs-for-the-baby-daddies-at-the-essence-music-festival/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:30:30 +0000 WDBZ 1230am http://thebuzzcincy.com/?p=1057662 Chaka Khan Performs for the KISSDETROIT - Chaka Khan, just like her fellow Chicagoan Kanye West, performs a very personable set when she interacts with the audience. While at the Essence Music Festival Khan performed what she referred to as her 'baby daddy song'. The actual title of the song is 'Pack My Bags' This next song I call... Read more..]]> KISSDETROIT – Chaka Khan, just like her fellow Chicagoan Kanye West, performs a very personable set when she interacts with the audience. While at the Essence Music Festival Khan performed what she referred to as her ‘baby daddy song’. The actual title of the song is ‘Pack My Bags’

This next song I call my baby daddy song because when I wrote this song as I was, actually I wrote this song as I was leaving him. This was my first husband a long time ago….its one of my favorite songs.

Hassan Khan was Chaka’s first husband whom she married in 1970. They divorced in 1971.
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]]> http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/chaka-khan-performs-for-the-baby-daddies-at-the-essence-music-festival/feed/ 0 Trey Songz Performs “Motivation” Remix at Essence Music Festival http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/trey-songz-performs-motivation-remix-at-essence-music-festival/ http://thebuzzcincy.com/national/1230amwdbz2/trey-songz-performs-motivation-remix-at-essence-music-festival/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:45:43 +0000 WDBZ 1230am http://thebuzzcincy.com/?p=1056772 Trey Songz Performs HOTHIPHOPDETROIT - Trey Song was on fire during his performance at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans covering and remixing his records with many other artists hits. He killed his remix to Kelly Roland's "Motivation". SOURCE: Read more..]]> HOTHIPHOPDETROIT – Trey Song was on fire during his performance at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans covering and remixing his records with many other artists hits. He killed his remix to Kelly Roland’s “Motivation”.
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