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re: Five Shot on Bourbon Street.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:05 am to Swagga
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:05 am to Swagga
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I’ve lived down here all my life. You should have had this concern well before this shooting. Someone getting lost in New Orleans is always one of my biggest concerns anytime I have visitiors.
I’ve lived here for 4 years now and they have visited before and we’ve had almost no trouble visiting the French quarter area. They aren’t going to wander over to the Treme or the Bywater. But now I’m worried about even going to the wrong part of the FQ or the garden district at the wrong time.
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Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:07 am to Swagga
No shite. My buddy from Michigan got lost one mardi gras. We were in cats watching the whores karaoke and I turned around and he is gone. Phone and wallet sitting there on table. Found him 5 hours later hanging out with some Wisconsin people. He was so trashed he didnt remember anything. Said he walked around and ended up where, his quote, "there was no party" and knew he fricked up. Some old woman gave him block by block directions. I think he was up near the Iberville projects.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:07 am to Swagga
Yup, always had my head on a swivel when down there, but we chose mostly to hang out uptown and occasionally hit Bourbon.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:08 am to CaptN
The shootings occurred around 2 AM.
If you are not in bed by midnight ....you should probably go home.
If you are not in bed by midnight ....you should probably go home.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:09 am to charlestonchief
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Yup, always had my head on a swivel when down there, but we chose mostly to hang out uptown and occasionally hit Bourbon.
Uptown hasn’t even been safe. Hell they’ve got a masturbator on the loose and had a carjacking with two kids abducted like two weeks ago. There’s been plenty of violent crime in uptown much more frequently over the last year.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:10 am to sawtooth
Unless your a 13 year old in Chicago right?
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:12 am to CaptN
Those are rookie numbers.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:14 am to jlovel7
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I’ve lived here for 4 years now and they have visited before and we’ve had almost no trouble visiting the French quarter area. They aren’t going to wander over to the Treme or the Bywater. But now I’m worried about even going to the wrong part of the FQ or the garden district at the wrong time.
I mean, if you had no concerns about those things before you were probably the naive person you worry about them being...
That said, the hot spots in the FQ aren’t a big mystery. Walk briskly instead of lingering in the first block of bourbon for instance. A few basics like that and there’s not much worry.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:20 am to CaptN
I am amazed every time I watch the video of one of these shootings. Dudes have words and then one will pull a gun and just shoot randomly into the crowd. Often nowhere near the dude he had words with. What is the mindset here? I just don't get it.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:23 am to bigcatfish
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That’s considered a mass shooting now.
Only for the purposes of gun control.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:23 am to jlovel7
It’s cliche here but NOLA really is a shithole. Imagine NYC allowing crime like this to happen in Times Square
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:23 am to CaptN
If the city's leaders had any sense at all, they would clean up Canal and make sure it and the FQ are heavily policed at all times. As important as tourism and conventions are to the city, that should be a no brainer. Maybe I just don't get it though. Smart people like Mitch and Destroya must know what they are doing.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:25 am to jbgleason
Hard to aim a pistol being held sideways
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:25 am to jlovel7
Well I was talking around late 90’s early 2000’s. Don’t really care to visit Nola at all, unless for a special event.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:26 am to CaptN
City/NOPD kicked LSP out in order to keep the tax money for their “task force.”
Then we get a new radical DA with an agenda and now here we are.
No proactive policing and a lame duck DA’s office.
Then we get a new radical DA with an agenda and now here we are.
No proactive policing and a lame duck DA’s office.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:30 am to brass2mouth
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City/NOPD kicked LSP out in order to keep the tax money for their “task force.”
Explain this more please
Looks like that tax hike is back on the ballot again, today
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French Quarter voters will decide in Saturday's election whether to bring back a sales tax that pays for extra police patrols in the neighborhood. The 0.245% tax is similar to one that was shot down by voters in the fall elections, allowing it to expire at the start of the year. Property tax proposals, French Quarter sales tax voted down in New Orleans Property tax proposals, French Quarter sales tax voted down in New Orleans About 67% of French Quarter voters cast ballots against the tax last time, as Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration and some French Quarter groups clashed over how the money would be divvied up.
Cantrell had sought to split the money equally between police and workers who would write citations for minor quality of life and code enforcement issues. Other groups, led by the French Quarter Management District, had sought to have the money go primarily to police. Almost immediately after the tax failed, the City Council voted to put it back on the ballot in a modified form. French Quarter sales tax for police to go on the ballot for a second time French Quarter sales tax for police to go on the ballot for a second time.
The new plan would put the Management District, a state board made up of representatives of various French Quarter groups, in charge of the revenue generated by the tax and require the first $2 million a year go directly to police patrols. Any additional funds can go toward either more police or other public safety programs. If passed, the tax is expected to bring in between $2 million and $2.5 million. The Management District and Cantrell administration have still not reached an agreement about the funds, which would start to be collected in July if the tax passes.
The original tax was put in place under former Mayor Mitch Landrieu in 2015 as part of a collection of programs aimed at increasing the police presence in the French Quarter amid a rise in crime. Originally, it funded Louisiana State Police patrols. Those patrols have since ended and the Management District has said it plans to use the sales tax money to continue popular Smart car patrols by off-duty New Orleans Police Officers. Those patrols were originally funded by the tourism industry, though that money dried up during the coronavirus pandemic.
This post was edited on 4/24/21 at 7:35 am
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:33 am to jlovel7
First 5 blocks of Bourbon St. should be declared a “No-Go Zone”...
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:34 am to Swagga
I got super drunk at the Bacchus Bash when I was 18, about 20 years ago. I wandered away from my group and for some reason just kept walking. I called my Dad to come get me from Chalmette, trying to give him directions from buildings. He ended up seeing me sitting down right across from Claiborne, a block or so away from the projects. I have no idea how I didn’t get at least robbed or jumped, but I have absolutely no doubt I wouldn’t have made it half that far today and survived.
This post was edited on 4/24/21 at 9:39 am
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:41 am to CaptN
This is terrible.
Why can’t they just engage in a friendly knife fight.
Why can’t they just engage in a friendly knife fight.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 7:42 am to CaptN
Do these Black Lives Not Matter?
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