As crime returns to New Orleans it is also growing in the surrounding parishes. St. Tammany had its first quadruple murder on June 29, 2006. Thugs invaded a trailer home and killed four occupants in a drug related shooting. Witnesses include two occupants who escaped by hiding in a bathroom.

The local sheriff, Jack Strain, gained immediate fame when he made statements that if you were found walking around St. Tammany parish wearing dreadlocks or "chee wee" hairstyles you should expect to be visited by the police. The murder suspects were described as such. However the prospect of racial and class based profiling is clear. Predicatably the NAACP responded. Not with a condemnation of the crime and the criminals. Not with clues leading to an arrest, but with a lawsuit against the Sheriff.

Jefferson parish is reporting increased crime. On June 30th a car crashed into other cars on the westbank expressway a mile from the hospital when the driver passed out after the car was sprayed with bullets. This is another apparent drug related car to car fatal shooting.

Regional cooperation remains elusive.