What can be done about crime in New Orleans? (crime rates, luxury)

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by waitingtundra

Geeze, know a person from a good family, good education and a good job doing 20+ years for dealin meth. Know people from the poorest part of New Orleans, little education, that worked crappy jobs, but stuck with it, and have hashed out to a fair job, raisin a family and doing good. People always want to blame sumthan else for there problems. Grow da fruck up, get ure arse outa bed, work hard and do the right thang and it will mostly work out, Guess some people just feel that everyone is holding them back and is owed a living if they work at it or not.

What's it like looking in from the outside?

[gamboolman]

We love New Orleans and have gone for long weekends two or three times per year for many years. We went in December last year before Christmas. We spend alot and have fun - and we usually end up purchasing a good bit of art and things we find in the shops.

In the French Quarter we were harassed and approached by bums and panhandlers quite a bit. Also we noticed a increase in the number of street pan handlers being noticeably more aggressive.

We wrote the Mayor, the Police Department and the Chamber of Commerce - pointing out what we had experienced and asked for a reply as to what plans and actions were for tourists to keep New Orleans fun and desirable - and safe.

We got ZERO responses.

We'll be back to New Orleans - but perhaps we will not go near as often as we used too.

[waitingtundra]

What's it like blaming the white man everytime you have a problem, instead of working your way out of it?

[waitingtundra]

New Orleans Police Department is vary much understaffed, much of the city has little to no police protection, even parts of the French Quarter. Had friends from New York city come down for a convention, said the felt uncomfortable in the city, now that's saying sumthan. They haven't been back.

[norb123]

Originally Posted by gamboolman

We love New Orleans and have gone for long weekends two or three times per year for many years. We went in December last year before Christmas. We spend alot and have fun - and we usually end up purchasing a good bit of art and things we find in the shops.

In the French Quarter we were harassed and approached by bums and panhandlers quite a bit. Also we noticed a increase in the number of street pan handlers being noticeably more aggressive.

We wrote the Mayor, the Police Department and the Chamber of Commerce - pointing out what we had experienced and asked for a reply as to what plans and actions were for tourists to keep New Orleans fun and desirable - and safe.

We got ZERO responses.

We'll be back to New Orleans - but perhaps we will not go near as often as we used too.

I find it hard to believe that you have been coming here for years if this is the first time you have been harassed by panhandlers and people in the streets. The hustlers have always been here. Bourbon St is definitely not Disney world. The majority of them are harmless. I'm sorry you won't visit as much, but the quarter hasn't changed much over the years, and the occasional incident where a tourist is the victim of a crime doesn't seem to slow tourism, even though it's something that shouldn't happen. I think it's because people realize it can happen in any city.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by waitingtundra

What's it like blaming the white man everytime you have a problem, instead of working your way out of it?

I stated facts and all you responded with was anecdotal evidence.
What I said is the truth.

Originally Posted by waitingtundra

New Orleans Police Department is vary much understaffed, much of the city has little to no police protection, even parts of the French Quarter. Had friends from New York city come down for a convention, said the felt uncomfortable in the city, now that's saying sumthan. They haven't been back.

New York City is one of the safest cities in the world. It's not saying much at all actually. Espicially considering that very large parts of New York are very safe, the same cannot be said for New Orleans. The demographics are very very different considering the neighborhoods that surround Manhattan versus the ones that surround the CBD/Quarter. The Marigny isn't quite Williamsburg.

[selogic]

Originally Posted by tekboi

Think about this. If the meth dealer had a proper education, job opportunities, and a stable home growing up, would he end up being a meth dealer in the first place?

I would be willing to bet he had everything I did .

[waitingtundra]

Yes Annie New York City has become vary safe, but it wasn't always so. Maybe Chicago and New Orleans could learn something about how they could turned it around. Know when I worked up there in the 70's for a few years it was no freakin joke, that's a fact.

[tijlover]

New York City, I'm guessing we're talking Manhattan, has become safe because the poor can't afford to live there anymore, driven out with gentrification projects. No poor person can afford to live in Harlem anymore, the yuppies have taken over. And, they're even starting to rehab parts of the Bronx!

I stayed in a luxury hostel in Harlem 5 years ago, and where did the Black people go to? They've even built a boutique hotel on 125th Street in Harlem, and before long the Bronx will be re-invented like Harlem, and where oh where do the poor people move to? Across the rive to Newark?

Even South L.A. has become safer, the poor being driven out to San Bernardino/Rialto/Victorville.

So is that the formula you want for New Orleans to make it safer?

[brownbagg]

Originally Posted by tijlover

So is that the formula you want for New Orleans to make it safer?

keep all the crime in the city so the suburbs and outside areas are safe