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.
If these are only druggies killing each other, maybe it's not such a bad thing.
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.
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Unfortunatley, that is incorrect. True, the people doing the killing are often drug dealers or career criminals. But the sad fact is a lot of innocent people (including tourists) get killed or injured (at the very least, mugged at gun point).
It is a way of life in Ciudad de Chocolatate.