re: Woman forced into car and raped on Canal Street

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New Orleans has always had a big crime problem. Murders have (thankfully) come down a bit in recent years but are still high, and other violent crime remains high.

IMO one thing that makes NOLA crime "scarier" than the crime in other cities is that the location of crime is more dispersed in NOLA than in a lot of big cities. A lot of cities have pretty well defined "good" and "bad" areas, whereas in New Orleans things are a lot more mixed so the crime is not as isolated.

The recent police shortage has obviously done nothing to help the situation.

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You are 100 percent right. Baltimore had 9 murders last weekend and Chicago probably had three times that. Whatever happens in New Orleans pales to those cities, statistics wise. However, like you said the crime areas in New Orleans tend not to be isolated, which is the problem. The mansions on St Charles avenue are a stones throw from crack dens. Criminal culture suffuses popular areas putting people at risk, ie the Quarter, whereas no one is likely to be mugged or shot in Chicago down by the Navy Pier. Police manpower is the obvious solution here. Whether it comes anytime soon is unlikely though