“The lesson learned should be: Stay the hell out of the jungle and keep away from the zoo.”
The french quarter in NO is very pretty, and mostly wealthy and white. Walking there should be safe most of the time. It is not the hood.
No the French Quarter is not the Hood, but its so close its too easy for the feral holderites to visit at will.
Remember when “car jacking” was their rage? Why did they quit car jacking? Because of Conceal Carry!
That being said, we had planned to go to NO on some weekend for the food. Even armed, NO and even the killer softshell crab may be off the itinerary.
When they have lost enough tourism, the NOPD will go back to cracking heads of thugs that want to prey on the French Quarter, just like they used to do.
The French Quarter is a white hole in a black donut. It is surrounded by ‘the hood’. Unless-and until- it is WALLED OFF and access is controlled to keep hunting predators out, it will be lost to crime. It’s closer than you know already. There is NO reason for gangs of youth-black or white but in N.O it’s black- to roam the streets of an all-night tourist attraction ,period. They are there as predators only.
In this case the victims were locals who sure as hell should have known better. Tourists, at least, can claim they were misled into thinking ‘open 24hrs’ means safe 24 hrs. Locals hear about the daily incidents that tourists don’t. Blacks here OPENLY discuss ‘getting’ tourists despite guarded parking lots, etc. I’ve heard black women proudly saying things like ‘they got them good’ and praising the success of the perpetrators in such incidents. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. STAY OUT of New Orleans. The hunters are waiting for you. You are MEAT ON THE STREET.
Pretty doesn’t mean much when you are lying on the historic sidewalk, bleeding or dying.