That's the way its trending right now. Anyway, the Houston Chronicle has finally picked up on what i've been blogging about the spike in murders; it wasn't new and I'm certainly not the only one who noticed. But they buried the dicotomy way down in the article noting that overall violent crimes has not increased significantly, which is what my data also say. Anyway we still don't know if there is a real Katrina effect, if the rate of felonies commited by Katrina refugees is higher than the rate of felonies in Houston overall. Since the Katrina population is so small (100,000?) it would be difficult to tease that data out (and is it that relevant anyway?)