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New Orleans has been going down hill for a long time now. Friend of mine was a LEO there until he managed to transfer to a place in the North West and the stories be told is were crazy. That City has always been a total dump with a pretend town zone in the quarter and areas like canal st. No surprise that all that crap can over flow to the tourist areas.
All that said, I still love going there but we go in groups and many of us are armed.
I lived in New Orleans in the mid 1990s, and crime was very bad then as well. I remember there was a big billboard off Claiborne Avenue that I passed by every day that said in big bold letters, "Thou Shalt NOT Kill". Apparently, someone decided there needed to be a sign to remind people. Which is why, as much as myself and all my classmates loved New Orleans, not one of us (aside from the natives) chose to remain living there after grad school.
I had such a love/hate relationship with the city. After Katrina, there was a huge influx back to the city by both former residents and young transplants wanting to move there and rebuild and invest in the city, and great strides have been made, but sadly, there are still so many problems. And the details of when and where this attack occurred are indeed concerning. As previously pointed out, this is is not late at night on a deserted street, it's in an open, well traveled area.
I lived in New Orleans for nearly 3 years. I never felt completely safe, even in the touristy French Quarter. I ran across far too many sketchy characters.
Nice job mayor "Mitch" Landrieu! Beautiful city you have there, N.O. should lead the national homicide rates again this year, so many more important things though to grandstand over like monuments.
Why would you blame the mayor when it was the national government that outlawed segregation? The mayor's hands are tied.
These mayors are terrible , the last one ray nagin is in prison and the present one landrieu is a con artistwho used the monuments to gain national exposure.
How much of Katrina damage could have avoided if people had of evacuated like they were told to. Any where from 85-200 billion in taxpayer money and insurance for a crime ridden, poorly run city ?
"Congress already has allocated $62.3 billion for rescue, recovery and repair from Hurricane Katrina, and analysts expect the total to go far higher. Add in at least $40 billion in private insurance payments plus billions more in state funds and federal flood insurance, and “it’s over a $200 billion event by the time you’re done with this,” said David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor’s."
I've been there. It's a dangerous city for sure, but that street looked pretty empty to me. I guess there was no choice if that was their hotel. I still would have been looking around and on guard. Empty streets in the Quarter are scary.
What a crap response. The victims were simply walking down an ordinary street at a normal hour.
I'm not victim blaming. All I was saying is you need to be aware of your surroundings and try to avoid empty streets there. I know someone there who got gang raped along with her boyfriend (yes, both of them). She moved away after that. We got a lot of crime in Houston after Hurricane Katrina and all those people came here. Many stayed, and New Orleans was pretty safe for a while after that. But apparently not anymore.
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