Our First Katrina Refugees

Morgans wrote:



The people need a place to go, but I have to wonder how many of these
citizens are going to be a huge crime problem. It will only take a few
percent. They have nothing to lose.

I hope I am totally wrong.

Yea... they have plenty to lose. They will lose what freedom they have
left (individual criminals) and they also would be banished from the
dome. There have already been crackdowns on pot selling at the Dome
(apparently the Louisiana cops only cited you for smoking it, not having
it). There has been only one CONFIRMED sexual assault on premises per
the media, but the email and gossip rumors are abounding.

Slowly but surely the thugs will be weeded out, and removed. There is a
constant police presence not only at the dome, but at most of the
hospitals as well, and I am sure some of the local businesses are hiring
off duty cops in the interim as well. Not the place to act stupid, and
the stupid will quickly find this out the hard way. Unlike New Orleans,
our Jail is open for business.

One subway restaurant put up a sign that prohibited loitering,
essentially saying you need to buy something to hang out and sit in the
restaurant, otherwise the Police would be called to escort you out.

On the flip side, there are opportunities abound for those who WANT to
help themselves: there are already job fairs, resume building sessions,
nationwide companies are finding local work for displaced citizens.

The shelters in other Texas cities have already emptied considerably
(into private establishments and housing), but the Dome is gonna be
ground central for the disenfranchised for quite a while, I believe.

Dave