re: How would you solve the crime problem in New Orleans?

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Eventually the tourist will quit coming if they feel unsafe because of the crime.

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Tourists will never stop coming. Ever.

As soon as an area of town is safe, gentrification will take place and locals will be displaced. Community organizers and the City Council don’t want that to happen.

So you have locals who deny there is a real problem but are forced to drive on streets that look like the cratered moon surface to drop their kids off at an expensive private school, a government that is hostile to the tax base, other locals who pursue crime as an accepted way to make a living, and others who think that living off government checks is as good as they’ll get.