Half of New Orleans shootings/murders occur in Nola East and 9th Ward

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Sad that area used to be nice until the late-80s.

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it's a shame. it should be middle/working class families with decent public schools. then again, without it, a lot of that riff raff would be in better parts of the city so

Geographically those two areas probably account for more than 50% of the city.

Population maybe 1/3.

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The city would actually be decent if the East disappeared. Sad that area used to be nice until the late-80s

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It really is crazy how fast the area went to shite. Driving down Chef Menteur is a harrowing scene. There are countless abandoned and blighted buildings. Former strip malls have maybe one or two occupied tenants, which consist mainly of Cricket wireless/Boost mobile-types, beauty shops, and dollar stores. It's like driving through a third world country.

Bet that took a lot on research and study.

The 7th ward was awful the past few years, but seems to have calmed down now. 7th ward was solid blue collar family territory in the 90s.

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Sad that area used to be nice until the late-80s.

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I wonder what happened in that time frame

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Huh, I’ll be damned. I would have thought that most of them would have been on St Charles.

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No surprise here. Oh, and the 9th Ward encompassed the East too. The bigger problem is that half of the shootings/murders are happening outside those areas.

Baton Rouge would be fairly decent if we could get rid of north Baton Rouge. Unfortunately crime has a way of migrating across areas.