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re: 21 Year Old Victim Dies in Bourbon St Shooting (Updated)
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:42 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:42 am to SlowFlowPro
you see these Trolls we have to deal with in NOLA threads? 
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Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:44 am to BottomlandBrew
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What kind of PD has to put up a "help wanted" sign?
a police force that (at least previously) only hired from within a city filled with people with criminal records, making their job prospects with NOPD limited
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:45 am to LSUzealot
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Vicky's corner grocery on Magazine St. next to my apartment because it's where the uptown riff raff buy their colt 45's on Monday morning…there are a few places like Vicky's that need to DIAF…another example is Danny's Seafood, a place that should be on Claiborne but it's in the middle of a nice area
Area got nice around them. Won't last much longer as the prices on Magazine are insane now.
I do shop and eat in the ghetto. I don't fault the business owners. I want to see those little mom and pop restaurants succeed.
I don't feel threatened being around poor black people. But I do keep an open eye and pay more attention to my surroundings. I wear a pen camera and turn it on if I feel threatened. I also let my gf know where I am whenever I am in the ghetto and check in every hour.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:46 am to tgrbaitn08
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The people getting shot on Bourbon St at 3 am aren't tourist.
What an idiot
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Not all the victims were from New Orleans, Serpas said. Police and emergency medical personnel arrived at the scene moments after the shooting took place.
This post was edited on 6/29/14 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:49 am to 4LSU2
Kind of sad that if this happens anywhere else, it's domestic terror and all over the National news. But on Bourbon and in Nola, it's just "a strange and temporary uptick in activity."
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:50 am to SlowFlowPro
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publicly shaming section 8 landlords who destroy your sity is another more aggressive (and unlikely to occur) move
I would like to see this. I was approached to spill the beans on "Mrs Laura" who owns hundreds of properties uptown. If you see a ran down looking mansion turned into apartments, that's her thing. All crappy too. I didn't spill the beans though. I did drop her and her $700/month influx because I just hate slum lords.
Smae with Crescent City gates. That is the only job where I told the owner "you are scum". I have never seen a nastier place than that.
Yes, the blacks feel like they need to have their local interest protected and in many ways I agree. But they also need to realize that they also contributed to the problem by covering for criminals over and over with the church groups and social clubs.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:50 am to SlowFlowPro
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having every elected official who supported that new mixed-used/section 8 monstrosity not elected again is a start
Although I don't think these things will last for the long haul, they are certainly better than what was there before, and having them privately owned is a much better idea, as they are allowed to evict people. It was possibly the only alternative to doing what most of us would like, completely demolishing them and not rebuilding, yet we know that would never get approved.
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publicly shaming section 8 landlords who destroy your sity is another more aggressive (and unlikely to occur) move
I'm not really sure how you go about this, but it wouldn't make a difference anyway. And section 8 is not a problem exclusive to New Orleans.
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nola seems to cater to that demo. even during the YOUBERT debates, about 1/3 of the arguments against the service were based in how it wasn't going to help poor people and/or was racist. and these arguments were made/celebrated by city council members.
That's what you get with a large democrat and black population. But as stated earlier in this thread, many poor neighborhoods are slowly being priced out with gentrification. This is a slow process, but it is obvious to anyone who has been to the city over the course of the last 5 years.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:54 am to 4LSU2
What person of sound mind is in the French Quarter at 2:45 a.m. - and the same goes for people on side streets in the Quarter late at night?
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:55 am to 4LSU2
I really hate Bourbon Street
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:56 am to rintintin
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Although I don't think these things will last for the long haul, they are certainly better than what was there before,
you see, i see not keeping the same ole same ole mentality as an opportunity to force these people out of the city...not an opportunity to possibly improve their shitty ghetto slightly in another area (destroying the area in the process)
there is not a human right to live in nola. these people need to get that (after Katrina it was insane)
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And section 8 is not a problem exclusive to New Orleans.
no, but it destroys neighborhoods and makes nola volatile by having no defined ghetto
if you can't get them out of your city, at least you can wrangle them into 1 or 2 easily defined areas to contain their bullshite
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:57 am to rintintin
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And section 8 is not a problem exclusive to New Orleans.
also section 8 is better than other slum options.
With section 8 the tenants are now responsible for property. If they trasha place they LOSE section 8 for life.
Honestly I wish I had bought this fourplex in the East when I had the chance. My buddy who bought it sold it a few weeks ago for four times what he paid for it.
With the new hospitals, out of towners are snatching up rentals all over.
To run as section 8, yes. But I see a lot worse than section 8. The people who can't qualify for section 8.... for one.
Section 8 rentals get around $750-800 for the owner. I have been to places in the east that rent for $300-4. There are some really crappy places that you just can't believe are in the city/ Especially in the upper ninth ward and the east.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:57 am to 911Moto
A lot of sane people are in the Quarter at 2:45 AM. The young woman from out of town who was shot was apparently with her friends singing at Cat's Meow prior to being shot in the face. She was with a group of her friends having fun and behaving.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:59 am to SlowFlowPro
I was out last night w some friends celebrating a bachelor party. We were in Bourbon Heat (I know...) when this happened. Literally went down right outside the door. The bouncers slammed the doors and kept us locked in for about an hour.
It was surreal and very sobering. I watched from the window as they tried reviving people on the street. Bodies were scattered everywhere. Wild.
It was surreal and very sobering. I watched from the window as they tried reviving people on the street. Bodies were scattered everywhere. Wild.
This post was edited on 6/29/14 at 11:00 am
Posted on 6/29/14 at 10:59 am to NoSaint
Posted on 6/29/14 at 11:00 am to urinetrouble
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quote: it's not that y'all "support" this stuff, but every time this shite gets posted there are pro-nola people downplaying this very serious shite. i mean NINE people got shot. that's a major fricking deal Well, it is probably in response to all the Nola haters who revel in news like this and use it to make attacks on the city as a whole.
Its so crazy when new orleans people on here get upset when something negative gets posted about the city and act like people are just trying to attack the city. It happens everytime there are multiple people shot in the quarter. Guess what, those "thugs" that people keep talking about are as much apart of new orleans as the uptown posters on here. Stop acting like its just " haters" hating when people talk about how bad stuff like this is.
And on a side note, plenty of locals go to pat o's and the restaurants in the quarter.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 11:01 am to SlowFlowPro
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having no defined ghetto
The Napoleon Plan--- aka "Move em to the East"
I would have built all projects in the east. Then have a rail system to bring them over to the city to work.
Have great infrastructure in the east and cheap rentals.
I would have built the jail out there and everything. The land is three times the size of NOLA proper.
I would of made the lower ninth ward an industrial area and put in new shipping ports and all. Move all commercial shipping commerce from downtown to there. (leave the Napoleon wharf in place too)
Bulldozed empty neighborhoods and built parks.
Napoleon for Emperor of New Orleans 2016.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 11:02 am to ihometiger
the problem with gentrification in my mind is that the people that get forced out of NOLA go to Metairie, Chalmette, Slidell where they're wanted even less
and they don't stop being who they are, so you're just moving the ghetto
and they don't stop being who they are, so you're just moving the ghetto
Posted on 6/29/14 at 11:03 am to T
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everytime there are multiple people shot in the quarter.
Posted on 6/29/14 at 11:04 am to GRTiger
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Kind of sad that if this happens anywhere else, it's domestic terror and all over the National news. But on Bourbon and in Nola, it's just "a strange and temporary uptick in
For whatever reason, media treats a "mass shooting" by different races differently. And I agree, it is sad because the tone of coverage seems to imply we all accept these kind of mass shooting by these particular individuals. As if it's expected behavior
This post was edited on 6/29/14 at 11:05 am
Posted on 6/29/14 at 11:04 am to Napoleon
How about no. I lived in the eat growing up and my parents still live there. Don't want the downtown riff raff
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