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Originally Posted by Dcat
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This guy is full of shit. New Orleans has always been pretty dangerous and held the "murder capital u.s.a." title for many years. When I was there in the 90's tourists were being shot in the head in the French Quarter and workers were getting executed (see Louisiana Pizza Kitchen murders) so locals took to the streets to "demand the head" of then Mayor Marc Morial because of his negligence in attending to the violence problem, so this guy's idea that violence is spiraling out of control NOW is really just an excuse to get more govt funding to keep the "undesirables" out of sight, which is funny coming from a corrupt local govt. like New Orleans. Corrupt ass cops and corrupt ass politicians.
Most of the violence in the city has come out of the projects, which illustrates again and again the disparity between the haves and have nots, and in many cases the whites v. the blacks.
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