the big easy gets real

the big easy gets real

fiction
edward w pritchard

Murder, murther, bloody murder. The big easy leads the nation in murder per capita. Worse than Detroit, worse than New York City, even worse than East Liverpool Ohio where there is nothing else to do.

A new Police chief can't fix the problem despite his new techniques, statistical variances and new hires. Study after study is done. Eventually it is decided the citizens of New Orleans are easily offended and act impulsively. May be it's all the cheap beer and wine. Not funny really, murder in broad daylight, murder in respectable neighborhoods, murder for minor reasons.

It's unAmerican the police chiefs solution, but it's working. If the police can't change the morals and mores of the citizens by law or enforcement extreme measures are necessary. The majority of voters here in the big Easy concur.

Murder perpetrators in New Orleans are difficult to deter in their revengeful inclinations because they care little for their own lives. Fear of punishment or reprisal against themselves do not frighten them. Whatever the laws or threats by police, the murders continued.

The Murders continued until the New Orleans Law director, Prosecutors and police began to enforce reprisals against innocent relatives of murder perpetrators. Be convicted of Murder in New Orleans and your next of kin shared your lawfully enforced punishment. It's unAmerican. Foul cried the ACLU in Vermont.

The case is pending in the Supreme Court. The Justices there are slow to review the file. Meanwhile Murders have fallen drastically in New Orleans because who wants their Mother to do twenty years or  get the electric chair because of their actions. Murder most foul is declining in New Orleans and that's OK with the folks in the Big Easy. They are a vengeful group sometimes. Leave them alone and let them make our Countries best music and cook some of the best food in the world.  The Big Easy, it's a little different down there.