re: What can honestly be done to fix New Orleans in terms of crime & mismanagement?

Honestly, the demographics will never allow the city to reach normal, sustainable level in my opinion.

I know this may sound bad to some, but it's my dead honest opinion...New Orleans has a "different" type of black American. They are substantiallymore violent, dangerous, and reckless in my opinion compare to arguably every other town. I read reports (mainly through this website) about 15 year olds snatched up in broad daylight off St. Charles Ave and are raped and beaten. I read reports of random, gang initiation style shootings on Magazine Street. I read reports of robbers ransacking some of New Orleans finer Uptown restaurants. I read reports of shooting up the Domino's pizza guy for $20 and a '94 Corolla. I read reports of shooting up a Mother's Day parade.

That kind of stuff doesn't happen elsewhere. Maybe it's because the city is so intertwined? For example, walk through the Garden District and admire the $5+ million dollar homes. On the other side of the street is straight hood and section 8 housing.

Who knows. New Orleans, for a city its size, is truly at a whole different level crime wise. Its become the norm and the citizens tend to just shrug their shoulders and chalk it up as "another day in the Big Easy".

ETA: That and the NOPD is one of the more corrupt departments in the country. They can't pay nor attract quality officers. Why should they? I wouldn't want to work in that environment and be assigned to the Lower 9th, 3rd Ward, 7th Ward, Holly Grove, New Orleans East, Central City, St. Claude/St. Roch, shite I can keep going...