BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!

Blue Pipe and Rebar, Metairie , LA 2000 from Fallen Paradise (New Orleans 1995-2005) . All reproduction rights reserved Wm. Greiner

Can anybody please explain to me why there have been virtually no mental health facilities or hospitals opened in New Orleans since Katrina hit? I repeatedly hear about the need , so why can't this social services need be met?

Today , in the New York Times , "Officer’s Slaying Leaves New Orleans Asking Why" is an article about a young New Orleans police officer gunned down by a mentally disturbed person who had been hospitalized but released for unknown reasons!.

Why?

If this person had been in a mental hospital , where he belonged - this police officer , a young woman, would still be alive.