did not get the merry christmas citizens wanted this year. for some , it was a downright scary christmas. there were many cities where santa stayed in the air. he was afraid of getting sleigh jacked. i think we report isolated crime events throughout the year, particularly in l.a. and new york. but the national crime picture often gets ignored. and when you look at the year it was, it takes your breath away, or at least it should. this is video of linda frickey, a seventy three year old grandmother from new orleans. who was in her car when four teens rushed it, pushing her out. frickey got caught in a safety belt and they dragged her for about a block, severing her arm from her body. she bled to death in the street. at least they captured her for tackers. but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than two hundred and sixty homicide in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital of
captain gleiser, want to go back to you, speak to me for a moment. every time i walk through the french quarter or new york city, or l.a., you smell pot everywhere you go . tell me the role of drugs in all of this, the legalization of drugs. we just had colorado, which legalized the use of hallucinogens. i mean, what burden does this place on cops trying to maintain order and enforce the law? well, when you re trying to deal with behavior, i think that allowing people or encouraging people to use drugs and to alter their behavior, make it even worse, cannot be a good thing. there s reasons for us having the drug laws that we ve they re not good things for us . and i think encouraging it is causing more problems than the freedoms that people think they want to have. with that, there are penalties and consequences for we see it all the time with alcohol. we have to have a lot of problems with dwi and other issues with alcohol.