About that crime problem in New Orleans...

Jarvis deBerry's Times-Picayune column on Friday contains this bomb:

Last summer, a judge in Criminal District Court told me that in all his years on the bench, he'd only presided over one case where the investigating police officers had dusted the crime scene for fingerprints and presented such evidence in court. At first the judge said he'd never presided over a case with such evidence, but then he corrected himself. There'd been one. I guess it stood out.

Read the entire column, but make sure you're sitting down and prepared for the worst.