Murders up 30% in Houston, I wonder why!?
Storm Evacuees Placing Strains on Texas Hosts
HOUSTON, April 15 — To the long list of adjectives used to describe Texans since last summer’s hurricanes — munificent, intrepid, scrappy — add one more: fed up.
Seven months after two powerful hurricanes blew through the Gulf Coast, elected officials, law enforcement agencies and many residents say Texas is nearing the end of its ability to play good neighbor without compensation.
Houston is straining along its municipal seams from the 150,000 new residents from New Orleans, officials say. Crime was already on the rise there before the hurricane, but the Houston police say that evacuees were victims or suspects in two-thirds of the 30 percent increase in murders since September. The schools are also struggling to educate thousands of new children.
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