re: Best options for new NFL and NBA stadiums out of dangerous NOLA?

New Orleans criminals have a very different mindset than do criminals elsewhere, I find. In most other tourism cities, law enforcement really focus on protecting tourists. So, criminals avoid targeting tourists to keep the spotlight off of them.

However, New Orleans criminals are crazy violent, and it’s a small place so everyone knows everyone. Throw in the fact that New Orleans has a severely understaffed police department, a pro-criminal DA, pro-criminal Mayor, and pro-criminal judges and you have a recipe for criminals purposely targeting tourists because tourists’ families are less likely to retaliate with violence.

The problems in New Orleans are at every level. I think we need a state level solution. We need the state legislature to pass legislation reducing judge’s discretion in sentencing/setting bail for violent offenders and robbers. We need to force the DA to resign for corruption and malfeasance and replace them with a DA that will actually prosecute crime. The mayor must be removed from office by hook or by crook. Finally, NOPD must be bolstered with additional resources, reduced bureaucratic demand (eliminate the insane consent decrees), open up paid parking lot companies to liability for cars being broken into under their protection, and use state police to help increase patrols in tourism areas.

I will never understand Louisiana politicians’ obsession with murdering every goose laying golden eggs.