Posted on 08/02/2021 7:26:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last night, gunfire erupted in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Five people were shot on Bourbon Street, while another four were shot, and one person was killed, on Iberville Street. The crown jewel of New Orleans tourism has now become a shooting gallery. It is no longer a rare event to learn of multiple shootings in the French Quarter during a weekend.
For a city that depends on tourism, these kinds of incidents are devastating to the economy of New Orleans.
Videos showed hundreds of people fleeing the gunfire, running for their lives. Even though police officers were in the vicinity last night, the brazen shooters were not deterred. A 15-year-old boy was the shooter in the Iberville Street incident. The victims were also teenagers.
On Bourbon Street, the victims ranged in age from 25 to 51. If officers cannot provide safety on Bourbon Street, there is little hope that there will be adequate safety in other crime ridden areas of New Orleans.
In the French Quarter, there are always extra officers since members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) are assisted by members of the Louisiana State Police. Unfortunately, it does not seem to deter the regular outbursts of violent crime.
In New Orleans, crime increased dramatically in 2020 and the trend is continuing for 2021.Violent crimes such as shootings, armed robberies, car jackings and murder are significantly higher this year.
According to the personal finance website, WalletHub, New Orleans has suffered through the highest per capita increase in homicide in the country since the start of the pandemic. WalletHub reported that there were “18 homicides per 100,000 residents in Q2 2021, which topped the list, as did its 7.42 homicide increase since Q2 2019.”
Similar data is also being reported by residents of New Orleans. In the annual Crime Coalition survey, New Orleans residents testified that the city is becoming unsafe. In the 2020 survey, “57 percent of residents said the city was safe. In the 2021 survey, only 35 percent say it’s safe – that’s a 22-point drop.”
The citizens of New Orleans have an accurate perception of the crime. According to the NOPD, by mid-July, there were already 250 shootings, 108 murders, 120 carjackings and 192 armed robberies in New Orleans.
New Orleans has had a violent crime problem for decades; however, it has only gotten worse in recent years. Historically, New Orleans has been ranked as one of the murder capitals in the nation.
The reasons for the carnage are longstanding and multi-faceted such as broken families and no discipline in public schools. However, New Orleans also has a dysfunctional criminal justice system. The recently elected Orleans Parish District Attorney was financially supported by George Soros and believes in a much more lenient approach to dealing with criminals than his tough on crime predecessor. Also, the criminal court judges are notoriously lax in handling juvenile offenders, who comprise a major percentage of these violent offenses.
Just like many cities across the country, New Orleans suffers from a massive shortage of police officers. In New Orleans, there has been a shortage of police officers for many years.
Currently, the city has about 1150 police officers, but to adequately provide safety to citizens and tourists alike, law enforcement experts contend there needs to be approximately 1600 officers.
The shortage began during the last mayoral administration when budget cuts resulted in the cancellation of new recruitment classes of officers. The deficit has never been addressed since that time. In the meantime, the overall anti-police attitude across the country has impacted New Orleans as well. This has led to many officers taking retirement or leaving for other departments such as the neighboring Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
In this respect, New Orleans is like many other cities led by Democrats. Statistics show that crime is exploding in all these areas. While the soft on crime approach was a problem for many years, the riots of 2020 truly accelerated the crisis in urban America.
In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, crime in cities across the country erupted. Along with riots and looting, there were irresponsible calls to defund the police. With police being targeted by Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters, more officers decided to retire. At the same time, it became much more difficult to recruit new police officers to join departments under siege.
Throughout the country, cities with Democratic leadership are seeing a tremendous increase in crime in 2021. While President Biden and congressional Democrats like to blame “guns,” the real problem is that there are too many criminals on the streets. Cities across America do not need gun control, instead, what is really needed is criminal control.
I refer to them as hyperviolent urban youth.
Will the White Supremacy never end?
This violence “ain’t” new in Orleans as per Fox News.
US 1 day ago
New Orleans shooting on Bourbon Street leaves 5 wounded; video shows crowd fleeing gunfire
Disturbing video from New Orleans early Sunday shows crowds fleeing gunfire on Bourbon Street.
US 1 year ago
New Orleans shootings: 4 dead, 1 hurt in separate shootings
Sep 11, 2020 ... Authorities in New Orleans responded to at least two shootings Thursday night at separate locations that resulted in four deaths and a victim ...
US 3 months ago
New Orleans shooting on Bourbon Street leaves at least 5 wounded: report
At least five people were wounded by gunfire early Saturday along New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street, according to a report.
US 2 years ago
New Orleans French Quarter shooting leaves 10 wounded
At least 10 people were wounded Sunday in an early-morning shooting in New Orleans’ French Quarter, officials said.
Correction-—Nawlins USED to be a great place to visit. It’s been going down hill quickly over the past decade. It used to be my favorite city——not anymore.
I was about five blocks from there visiting my son and his fiancée. Urban squalor. We drove right through that particular intersection. Some sort of fag parade had been going on.
“Half the population had gone.”
To Houston and Biden’d it up.
No, they’re still here in Houston. Maybe they just took a little weekend getaway to NO.
sigh..
New Orleans is a toilet,it always has been.
“Sometimes you have to flush twice.”
That’s a good one!
“Correction-—Nawlins USED to be a great place to visit. It’s been going down hill quickly over the past decade. It used to be my favorite city——not anymore.”
In my younger partying days (around 20-30 years ago) I loved going to New Orleans. I had to to there for work 2-4 weeks at a time. Had some great times. The only time I felt unsafe in the Quarter was when I was drunk driving. Things change.
I haven’t been there since the 60’s. French Quarter was a great fun place then. Unique amongst American cities, it had a quaint aire all it’s own...almost like a bawdy European city. Felt like you were in a foreign country. Great jazz musicians...Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Louis Armstrong and countless others. But that was when America was still America. Still love the cajun/bayou/zydeco culture though in the nearby parishes.
Why should New Orleans be any different from any other major US city?
Urban youths settling their differences.
:Just another day” was also my first thought. However, reporters like ‘drama’ so people running down a street when shots fired makes good front page news.
The city is 60% black so what do you expect??? Most blacks are violent and impulsive people so this is only going to get worse. Nearly 80% of blacks are born our of wedlock and there is no father figure to make sure the offspring know how to behave. More and more are being raised by grandparents who were also illegitimate whereas a few years ago, grandparents tended to have grown up in two-parent households. The problem is going to get much worse.
“Still love the cajun/bayou/zydeco culture though in the nearby parishes.”
But don’t forget what happened THERE this weekend, with Chris Ardoin’s shooting.
It ain’t French people who are shooting up the French Quarter!
George Soros is the Devil incarnate. He cannot die and go to Hell soon enough.
The professional types ended up in Atlanta.
The trash were bussed to Houston.
There were 3 particular violent young men who ended up in Houston. HPD put a bounty out on them . Essentially told the Houston gangs that if they want to collect, they needed to hunt them down. After a couple of days, they went back to NOLA.
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