You are correct, of course; I was thinking more of monitoring who returns, and eliminating the thugs right up front. But, unless they have outstanding warrants, you have to let them kill someone first!
If these are only druggies killing each other, maybe it's not such a bad thing.
Got ya. I would agree that that is probably a good idea.
I'd be quite surprised if this is anything other than that. New Orleans' murder statistics have had a high "good riddance" factor for as long as I can recall.
It was common, particularly near the public housing areas, for bystanders to be wounded or killed when this sort of violence flared up. Fortunately, those housing projects are still closed. The city is being sued by HUD, IIRC, to compel the reopening of the public housing developments.
That'd be a fine way of ensuring that the maximum amount of criminals can return home. The plaintiffs and their attorneys should have to live across the street from the worst of those places.
There's a new ingredient in the gumbo pot these days, too: Hispanic gangs. Six people killed in one day is bad, even by New Orleans' standards... but if there's a "homegrown thugs vs. immigrant gangs" rivalry thing going on, the bloodshed is just beginning.