Usually, the thugs confine their activities to Treme and the East side of the city. Now, the thugs have the whole city under siege.
I've heard there have been murders. Probably some gangs are taking this opportunity to take out their rival gang members.
For those of us unfamiliar with New Orleans, can you expand a bit on what the Treme neighborhood is, where and so on? (And how do you pronounce that?)
In any event, what's going on there now should be a salutary reminder to the reality-challenged among us (I mean liberals) that the veneer of civilization is at all times wafer-thin and fragile, and requires constant vigilance for its preservation.