re: What's the most corrupt city in Louisiana?

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I wonder if investigations and convictions (or other ramifications) for corruption is a sign of blatant corruption or more a sign that it’s there but being fought against?

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It’s a sign of mismanagement.

If these locales were heavily corrupt but also efficiently running their jurisdictions and ensuring consistent access to basic services, most people would shrug and look past the corruption.

It’s because they’re also incompetently managed that people actually want something done about it.

Essentially every government that has ever or will ever exist is corrupt in some way, the question is always if the government is doing its job in spite of the corruption. When it does everybody looks the other way, when it doesn’t people revolt and the ruling classes have to at least put on a show of doing something about the corruption.