Anybody live in NO in 1994? How dangerous did it feel? (New Orleans: condo, high crime)

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by NativeSon504

Trust me when I tell you this no matter what statistics say NOLA is nowhere near as dangerous as is was in '94 as matter of fact its no where near as dangerous as it was in the ENTIRE 90's. That decade was unbelievably DANGEROUS.

Yeah I wasn't old enough to understand at that time. It's crazy how a city so small can manage such numbers.

[WhoDatInMD]

Originally Posted by sconley9922

I remember in 94 I was at McD 35

I see we have a fellow Roneagle on the board

[NativeSon504]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Yeah I wasn't old enough to understand at that time. It's crazy how a city so small can manage such numbers.

Tell me about it, population of Orleans Parish in the 90's was a half a million.

[sconley9922]

Originally Posted by WhoDatInMD

I see we have a fellow Roneagle on the board

Yessir!

[goosenola]

I don't think it was 1994, but I remember a security camera at a car wash catching a helluva AK-47 battle one night in the later 90's.

[Neworleansisprettygood]

Originally Posted by goosenola

I don't think it was 1994, but I remember a security camera at a car wash catching a helluva AK-47 battle one night in the later 90's.

I think was actually '04 or so, but something tells me it might have actually been post-k, 2007/...

Found the story. It was 2003 http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/...ash_shoot.html

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by goosenola

I don't think it was 1994, but I remember a security camera at a car wash catching a helluva AK-47 battle one night in the later 90's.

2003 OR 2004. Retaliatory shooting. They had the wrong dudes though...mistaken identity. That was a Calliope beef......

[GatorSlim]

I'm from Natchitoches, but I use to travel to New Orleans a lot in the late 90s and early 2000s. I work with a crooked azz used car salesman to pick up cars and haul them back up. So we were down almost every Thur thru Saturday. I just remember the city was so live! So damn live! Everywhere people were outside, felt like a million people out, especially coming from Natchitoches. We'd pass thru bumping music all thru the 9th, the Iberville, uptown, downtown, the Fischer Project, the St. Thomas all over, girls would start dance and twerking. Some would always hop in with us. It was all love. It's was really cool. There was a lot of goons around then. Scary looking dudes. I remember dudes doing heroin like it was cool. That's why they was so wild. We met a lot of good folks in the hoods. We know it was dangerous, but we were strapped and didn't stay in unfamiliar hoods too long w/o knowing anyone. It was bad, but it wasn't if you wasn't robbing and slinging dope. I miss the pre-Katrina Nola.

Honest, all over Louisiana was hard back then. We use to go to Baton Rouge, Alexandria and Shreveport. Goons everywhere. Poverty was so bad back then, everybody in the hood was slinging dope and/or robbing. Even small Natchitoches was wild back. Dopewars. There was a lot of bad, back in the day, but a lot of good times tho.

[KamGT]

I was there but I was a young man in that environment and it didn't seem any different to me that any other year. That being said, I don't even feel safe when I go there now because maybe I'm wiser. My cousin(female) and I used to ride our bikes to the Algiers ferry, and sit out there and toke it up and never felt unsafe. Also rode my bike many times to City Park, yeah from Algiers(I know kinda far, but when you're young you can do that), and never had a problem. I think most of the crime is retaliation, but sometimes stuff happens to innocent people of course.

[smarino]

My memories of New Orleans go back to my teen years in the late 60's. It's always been a dangerous city, but when Bobby Kennedy went after Carlos Marcello and had him deported, the crime rate went way up and has stayed up. Say what you will about the mob, they understood that a high crime rate discourages tourism, which cuts into their money. You need one powerful group to control crime (and the always notorious on-the-take N.O. police). W/ the mob gone you see what happened. All these independent, violent amateurs took over and the crime has been out of control ever since. There's a reason they call it ORGANIZED crime. You are always going to have crime. Me, I want the pros to run it.