Excuse me, but downtown New Orleans is...where, exactly?
I admit I have never been to New Orleans.
OK.
But short of moving the crowd that terrorizes places like the French Quarter and the area around it you will never make the place safe.
Incidents like the assault on Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown are a good example. (several years ago)
That incident took place near Brennan’s Restaurant.
“...downtown New Orleans is...where, exactly?”
Everyplace that ain’t Uptown New Orleans!
Even the geographic uptown NOLA isn’t safe. The very day Whole Foods reopened after Katrina there was one purse-snatching inside the store, another in the parking garage. God only knows if it’ll ever get better. Not likely.