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re: Just how bad was early 90s New Orleans?
Posted on 7/21/26 at 6:09 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 7/21/26 at 6:09 am to SaintlyTiger88
...then came Katrina, the great purifier, and the whole cycle started over again...
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 6:10 am to RIPMachoMan
quote:It’s a quote from rapper Soulja Slim. Meaning if you were living the gangster lifestyle in New Orleans in 1994 and survived, you’re a true gangster.
Huh?
Posted on 7/21/26 at 6:14 am to SaintlyTiger88
The murder rate in New Orleans in 1994 was something like 90 per 100k. That made it the most dangerous city in the history of the U.S. and no city has surpassed it.
For reference, Jackson, MS and St. Louis were the murder capitols last year with a murder rate of 50 per 100k.
The national average is about 5 per 100k.
The homicide rate in New Orleans in 1994 was off-the-charts insane.
For reference, Jackson, MS and St. Louis were the murder capitols last year with a murder rate of 50 per 100k.
The national average is about 5 per 100k.
The homicide rate in New Orleans in 1994 was off-the-charts insane.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 6:21 am to cgrand
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uptown resident 84-96. It was pretty bad. I got mugged and pistol whipped outside my house on 8th street and spent the night in the hospital. Several cars stolen and/or vandalized. Home breakins were commonplace and pretty much expected
What I’ll never understand is why people choose to stay somewhere like this. After the mugging I’d start preparing to move. Don’t care how much I had to sacrifice to do so. Living someplace that corrupt and dangerous is unacceptable to me.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 6:22 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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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.
I agree - I still go to New Orleans 5-6 times a year, there are still places I love to go there and want to go there and enjoy going there - so I do.
As you indicated knowing when to go and where to go and how to go makes all the difference and I have quite honestly in my 50 years of going there never felt threatened or in danger - not even once.
I get those who don't want to go and care to go and all that, I understand but I'm going to keep going - I'll never move there or live there but I still enjoy the places I always have and until I don't - I'll continue to visit.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:27 am to TygerTyger
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What I’ll never understand is why people choose to stay somewhere like this. After the mugging I’d start preparing to move. Don’t care how much I had to sacrifice to do so. Living someplace that corrupt and dangerous is unacceptable to me.
As a high schooler we lived near the Garden District right off Broussard here in Baton Rouge early to Mid-80's. I was mugged at the 7-11 on Perkins and Eugene and our house was broken into during the day and items stolen while we were away at least 2 times and we had several bikes and lawn mowers stolen out of our garage, chains snapped, etc. I went off to college and beyond but my Mom stayed there probably another 10 years. It happens. She never seemed scared - liked her house and here neighbors I guess.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:32 am to SaintlyTiger88
i mean most things were contained to the projects
but in general the whole...things are worse than ever motto so many helicopter moms like to spout on FB is just bullshite
look at all the violent and sexual crime rates in all the big cities form around 1985-1995 and tell me it wasnt way worse then. We just didnt know about it because there was very little in terms of 24 hour news and internet.
but in general the whole...things are worse than ever motto so many helicopter moms like to spout on FB is just bullshite
look at all the violent and sexual crime rates in all the big cities form around 1985-1995 and tell me it wasnt way worse then. We just didnt know about it because there was very little in terms of 24 hour news and internet.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:35 am to Tiger Ugly
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I went off to college and beyond but my Mom stayed there probably another 10 years. It happens. She never seemed scared - liked her house and here neighbors I guess.
When I was really young, in the early 70's, we lived in Glen Oaks in BR. The "demographic" began to change and break-ins and other crimes rose. White flight kicked in and within a year my dad moved us to Central.
Continuing to live someplace dangerous seems like sheep just standing around in the field hoping the farmer won't pick them for dinner.
No thank you.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:44 am to TygerTyger
I turned 18 in 1992, we used to go to NOLA all the time. We knew it was very dangerous, but at that time it was really just in certain areas. In the 90s, NOLA had more projects and a lot of the violence was contained to those places. It would spill out at times, but if you were in high tourist spots, you were pretty safe.
I remember the advice I would give to people going out in NOLA, was to stay on the main streets. Try not to make yourself a target by staying in groups or with crowds.
I remember the advice I would give to people going out in NOLA, was to stay on the main streets. Try not to make yourself a target by staying in groups or with crowds.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:48 am to SaintlyTiger88
It’s no worse than it has been for the last 10 years.
People will lie to you and tell you it’s better or safer now.
None of these democrat shitholes in America are better.
Modern medicine has gotten better at preventing people from being killed from gunshot wounds.
Assaults and violence are still at the same rate.
The people that report statistics pencil whip the shite out of them and lie.
Do you think L.A, NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago are safer now?
People will lie to you and tell you it’s better or safer now.
None of these democrat shitholes in America are better.
Modern medicine has gotten better at preventing people from being killed from gunshot wounds.
Assaults and violence are still at the same rate.
The people that report statistics pencil whip the shite out of them and lie.
Do you think L.A, NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago are safer now?
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:49 am to SaintlyTiger88
Well they had the housing projects back then and a lot of the bad crime was in those locations. Not all of it but I recall the news daily reporting on crime incidents in the projects. Those ain’t dere no more so crime is now more randomly scattered
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 7:50 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:51 am to TygerTyger
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Continuing to live someplace dangerous seems like sheep just standing around in the field hoping the farmer won't pick them for dinner.
No thank you.
That area never became Glen Oaks, but I never felt completely safe there. It's pretty much the same there today as it was them, the demographics have not changed.
My Mom never felt uncomfortable and she stayed like I said. I don't think her situation was analogous to Glen Oaks. She could have taken steps that would have prevented the break ins during the day, etc. but she was too cheap.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:51 am to lsu777
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ook at all the violent and sexual crime rates in all the big cities form around 1985-1995 and tell me it wasnt way worse then. We just didnt know about it because there was very little in terms of 24 hour news and internet.
Do you think the people in charge doctored those stats like we know they do now and have been doing for quite some time?
Do you not think that modern medicine has caused that “homicide” number to go “down?”
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:53 am to ELVIS U
And years later folks are still blaming Katrina and haven’t recovered. Those areas by now should have been bulldozed and rebuilt by now.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 7:55 am to dnm3305
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Do you think the people in charge doctored those stats like we know they do now and have been doing for quite some time?
Do you not think that modern medicine has caused that “homicide” number to go “down?”
sure some but no i dont think the numbers were doctored up or anything. maybe down so would be worse
the thing is you had concentrated areas of extreme poverty. think the housing projects in NOLA or just go watch the wire, thats about what it was like. same with the housing projects in chicago(still somewhat like that) and areas of new york before Rudy took over
LA and Miami were a little different as in LA it was more turf wars for the crack epidemic and miami was more the drug gangs spreading out and nationalities fighting to be top dog in the drug trade.
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:00 am to dnm3305
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Do you think the people in charge doctored those stats like we know they do now and have been doing for quite some time?
Do you not think that modern medicine has caused that “homicide” number to go “down?”
1975 - 1995 was basically the period with the highest rates of social pathology in US history. It's more than just violent crime.
Then, all of a sudden, it just stopped. Certain pols like Rudy Giuliani got credit for fixing something that was fixing itself naturally, because they happened to enact policies while everything was decreasing around them.
We still don't know why it started or why it ended.
This post was edited on 7/21/26 at 8:01 am
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:06 am to La Place Mike
I had nothing to fear because Harry Lee protected us.
the saying was, there is a black out in Metairie....don't worry, Harry Lee will get him
the saying was, there is a black out in Metairie....don't worry, Harry Lee will get him
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:12 am to SaintlyTiger88
quote:I would ride my bike all the way up Toledano and buy quarter frozen cups from the hot plate lady on S Robertson street. Only got stabbed once but never shot and killed fwiw
early 90s New Orleans
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:13 am to blueboy
No doubt things were pretty dangerous in NOLA in the early to mid 90s and even into the late 90s. But today the city is appreciably safer than it has been since the early 70s. Around Tulane you could easily get mugged especially off campus and around Magazine Street by AT Ii . Then the 3rd District got a new commander who didn't mess around - I know because he was my uncle and prosecutions for assaults went up as did jail time for the perps
In the 7th ward around 1998, the local cops along with DEA busted a big gang that was responsible for a lot of trouble and murders started to go down. Then right prior to Katrina same group took down another gang in in Calliope.. Today most of the problems come out of NO East....far away from your late teenage playground that was the area between Broadway and Napoleon. 9th ward ....7th District is a big area without a lot of cops to cover it.....but even that area has a reduced level of assaults and shootings.
The fallback onto Jason Williams, George Soros is weak sauce , Bubba.There isn't near the level of murders and assaults that there were in 1994.....not even close. It's like you can't back up your assertion so you trot out the Soros boogeyman as your trump card thinking that the assertion will be enough to to short circuit the fact that you really do not know of what you speak
In the 7th ward around 1998, the local cops along with DEA busted a big gang that was responsible for a lot of trouble and murders started to go down. Then right prior to Katrina same group took down another gang in in Calliope.. Today most of the problems come out of NO East....far away from your late teenage playground that was the area between Broadway and Napoleon. 9th ward ....7th District is a big area without a lot of cops to cover it.....but even that area has a reduced level of assaults and shootings.
The fallback onto Jason Williams, George Soros is weak sauce , Bubba.There isn't near the level of murders and assaults that there were in 1994.....not even close. It's like you can't back up your assertion so you trot out the Soros boogeyman as your trump card thinking that the assertion will be enough to to short circuit the fact that you really do not know of what you speak
Posted on 7/21/26 at 8:14 am to James11111
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It was bout it bout it.
wasnt Master P on the west coast in the early 90s?
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