Your Right.
Louisiana has always been two separate states...you have NO by itself, which had the richest and the poorest of the state. And you had everything north and west of NO, which really was a decent area to live in. Crime split the same fashion...NO was the murder capita of the state...and up in Monroe, there is a one murder every two or three years. There are places in Natchitoches where you can leave your front door unlocked and you'd never be robbed. There are places in NO where you can be robbed five or six times a year.
Can't blame him.....who would have wanted the thugs set loose in their town?? By the time the bridge was shut down all the folks with any sense at all had driven out or taken a bus out for $2.25.
"Every single sheriff and mayor of other cities in Louisiana knew what thugs ran the streets unimpeded in NO and they did not want that terror imported to their towns and cities."
Nor should they have been expected to. I guess its easy to judge the sherriff of this town when a person doesn't have to deal with it themselves.