That's a bit unfair, uptown has remained as it's always been. You don't see this shootouts in rich areas, now do you. Haven't seen any news of crime among the ruins of Lakeview either, or the ruins of St. Bernard Parish. The crimes are all happening in what were in the former New Orleans, ghettoes often capped off by housing projects. It's not happening in the nice areas, so it's unfair to judge the whole city based by what people who used to live in the projects are currently doing.
Ahem, I think that's the whole point of what we're saying.
People's [and their doings'] visibility and importance in determining the character and "physiognomy" of a place need not, and do not, correspond to their numbers. Thus fairness has nothing to do with it.
This shooting was [not necessarily fairly - and it does not matter] taken as adequately representing the essence of "new orleanity". Al Capone was not Chicago, either.
Pardon- but there is a lot of crime in Lakeview-and Uptown.
Looters are stealing everything they can out of houses being repaired. The usual criminals can't carjack or hold up any residents of Lakeview-because they're GONE. Criminals go where there are people to rob. Ask around the Marigny!
And Uptown is a lot of fancy houses on the Avenue, behind which are some of the worst neighborhoods imaginable. My nephew is an EMT, he lives uptown. Thought it was no big deal. Now he's planning to get out. Nothing like waking up to a dead body in front of your door- and bullet holes in your house- to really ruin that 'Garden District' fantasy.