re: Social worker shot to death in New Orleans, days before 1-year wedding anniversary.

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How long will the people of New Orleans continue to keep their heads in the sand voting for idiots to govern them?

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For the most part, politicians are extensions of their constituencies.

So in this situation, there's no solution now or forever - unless a natural cataclysm would make the entire area unfit to live in, resulting in the need for a new beginning.

What is not generally known across the nation is that as bad as the East is perceived presently, it's nothing compared to the late '80s and '90s.

A time of what was called the "crack epidemic" and places of business like Adeaux's and Kilimanjaro which were incubators for trouble.

It all came together - a nexus made in Hell.

The increase in dysfunction, with an NOPD that was the product of the city lowering its standards for applicants to it.

It was the time of murderers Len Davis and Antoinette Frank - herself also an alleged patricide.

All going on while the NOPD was the target of an intense undercover investigation by the Feds in Operation Shattered Shield.

The stories just out of the Lake Forest mall alone strained credibility to the rational mind.

The official narrative presently is that the Mall fell on hard times "because of the oil bust."

Not so.

With the many businesses that were housed there and the ease of shopping, people from all over would've continued to shop there.

We have had more than our share of problems, with no real solutions in sight.

I drive for Uber sometimes on weekends in the NW burbs of Chicago. I state right in my profile I do not go to Chicago, Central or southern Cook county.