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Just how bad was early 90s New Orleans?
Posted on 7/20/26 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 7/20/26 at 6:44 pm
I was a little kid at the time, but the first half of the 90s in New Orleans, I’ve heard it was one of, if not the worst major city in the United States when it came to murder and drugs. In 1994 and 1995, New Orleans led the nation in homicide rate. You even had NOPD officers like Len Davis and Antoinette Frank killing people, when they were supposed to protect them.
Did anyone live in Nola during that era?
Did anyone live in Nola during that era?
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Posted on 7/20/26 at 6:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It was so bad that erybody knows where you got dem shoes!
Posted on 7/20/26 at 6:52 pm to SaintlyTiger88
So it’s always been this way?
Posted on 7/20/26 at 6:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It was a bad time. You had high profile incidents like the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen massacre. A guy in my safe neighborhood was killed while riding his bike by two thugs fleeing an armed robbery they had committed minutes earlier.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:03 pm to Eightballjacket
I was alive but too young to really remember. We lived in Eden Isle at the time. I know my dad wouldn't let my mom go alone into New Orleans. My mom would sometimes go to Lakeside or other places in Jefferson Parish alone or with me, but would typically take the Causeway to avoid New Orleans East.
What I don't remember what if it really impacted the main CBD and French Quarter areas. From what I remember, while anywhere in the city was a target, most of the violence was in places like the Treme, 7th Ward, 9th Ward and Central City, so if you avoided those areas your chances of being a victim went way down. But I could be wrong on that.
What I don't remember what if it really impacted the main CBD and French Quarter areas. From what I remember, while anywhere in the city was a target, most of the violence was in places like the Treme, 7th Ward, 9th Ward and Central City, so if you avoided those areas your chances of being a victim went way down. But I could be wrong on that.
This post was edited on 7/20/26 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:06 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Same as it ever was. You know where you go and where you don't go and what time of day or night directly affects whether its a yes or no...or how desperate you are to cop.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:08 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I don't really see how it could have been any worse than NOLA is now.
This post was edited on 7/20/26 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:09 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I don’t think it was any worse in the 90’s than it is today. Used to be a great place to go. I’ve been living in BR all my life and I’m 70 years old and IMHO it was never as bad as it is now.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:09 pm to SaintlyTiger88
quote:No, everyone commuted.
Did anyone live in Nola during that era?
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:11 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I graduated HS in New Orleans 1990. Honestly we weren't well off and seeing "ghetto" was normal to me. I never felt scared very often. My dad was a good hard working dad and mom a good mom. I remember there being a lot of crime but I didn't participate in it. I decided to get away from all that so I moved to Shreveport 
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:11 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I had alotta good time uptown 90-95
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:12 pm to SaintlyTiger88
If you lived passed 94 on you were off the porch you were a gangsta
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:12 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It was bout it bout it.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:14 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My dad was born and raised in NOLA I was a teenager during the times you asked about and he would warn me about the police and where I could and could not go in NOLA. It was rough but I think its no different today. Same as BR there are places I dont go after 4 in the afternoon
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:16 pm to SaintlyTiger88
In 1994 a friend of mine that I was in school with at Alabama decided to drive to New Orleans and visit his brother who at Loyola at the time for one of thier big fraternity parties. We got into the city and stopped at a McDonalds. As we were about to walk in an old black lady rolled down her window and kindly informed us that we should get back in our cars and move along down the road. We took the advice. Later that weekend we saw the paper and had the murder epicenter of New Orleans marked right by the spot where we stopped at that McDonalds.
All that said, we still had a great time in town that weekend.
All that said, we still had a great time in town that weekend.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:18 pm to SaintlyTiger88
What I understand from people like my parents that grew up there and my aunts and uncles that still live there is that the crime was segregated. Most of the murders happened in the black neighborhoods and that the police and the mob kept the white areas relatively violent crime free.
Kinda like BR is/was
Kinda like BR is/was
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:19 pm to YungFO
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If you lived passed 94 on you were off the porch you were a gangsta
Huh?
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:21 pm to SaintlyTiger88
1993: 295 murders
1994: 424 murders (City record high)
1995: 353 murders
1996: 350 murders
1997: 322 murders
It was bad. Worse than after Katrina and worse than the recent COVID-related social breakdown.
1994: 424 murders (City record high)
1995: 353 murders
1996: 350 murders
1997: 322 murders
It was bad. Worse than after Katrina and worse than the recent COVID-related social breakdown.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:21 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I moved down here in October 1990 and lived in Old Metairie. I had nothing to fear because Harry Lee protected us.
As to New Orleans, I never felt unsafe when I crossed the canal and that was just about every weekend.
As to New Orleans, I never felt unsafe when I crossed the canal and that was just about every weekend.
Posted on 7/20/26 at 7:23 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Remember those Friday night shows on 93.3 would where the DJ would lay down a beat and you could call in and freestyle over it 
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