New Orleans is a war zone, will the city ever have its own Rudy Giuliani?

Any candidate who remotely tries to be tough on crime won’t get the votes beyond locking down Lakeview. They elected Jason Williams who pledged to be soft on crime, let criminals out of jail, and look the other way on various crimes. And also happened to be under indictment at the time. And if someone were to get tough on crime, there’s no police force to carry the plan out. They’re getting exactly what they voted for.

The ATL mayor doesn't seem nearly as bad

But I'm probably basing a lot of that on a speech she gave during the BLM riots

The white liberals and sheeples do not want change. They act like they do, but they keep voting the problem back in.

State of Louisiana which has a Republican AG, legislature, and senate do nothing.

No. Didn't you know prosecuting criminals for committing crimes was racist?

The hard reality is that places like New Orleans, and to a lesser extent Atlanta, DC, etc. - do not have enough productive, normal (relatively) people in the city core to retake and control the heart of the city in the same way you saw with Manhattan.

New Orleans is not a business city. I know people here will blame the white progressive types who live in the city, and fair enough, but there simply aren’t enough people (in my experience) trying to live and work and raise families in New Orleans to turn it around. Nor are there enough business interests to push normalcy. Although we’re seeing that alone isn’t working in places like Seattle/Portland/SF anymore.

The entire country is stuck in a cycle where blighted areas become “cool” and are gentrified by young progressives who then run it into the ground and unwind the safety improvements and even as they’re fleeing elsewhere and whining about safety will defend the criminal element.

Candidly I don’t see a way out, and that’s not limited to New Orleans.

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This says it all.