re: Just how bad was early 90s New Orleans?

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It's like you can't back up your assertion so you trot out the Soros boogeyman

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Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams has faced heavy criticism from watchdog groups, political leaders, and local citizens for a high rate of charge refusals and dismissals across several categories

Violent Felony Arrests: A scathing report by the [Metropolitan Crime Commission (MCC)](1.1.2, 1.1.3) revealed that during his first two years, Williams' office refused to prosecute or dismissed roughly 68% of violent felony arrests

Felony Weapons Charges: Critics and local reports have targeted his office for dismissing nearly 40% of overall felony cases. This includes dropping multiple felony gun charges in multi-defendant cases, often leading to minimal jail time

Jailhouse Crimes & Escapes: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry heavily criticized Williams for refusing to prosecute battery on correctional officers and contraband possession charges against inmates involved in a high-profile jailbreak

Additionally, his office faced severe backlash for missing statutory legal deadlines, which forced the automatic release of numerous violent crime suspects before they could be formally charged

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multiple neighborhoods that were no go zones are now gentrified and livable.

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"March 22, 1990 Adolph Archie age 40 died at Charity Hospital. Archie, an African-American, was accused of killing a white officer, Earl Hauck, during a shootout downtown.

THE LONG RIDE TO CHARITY HOSPITAL

A security guard surprised Archie while he was breaking into a parked car at the Louisiana Superdome. Officer Hauck was fatally shot after cornering Archie.

Archie, shot in the forearm and slightly injured during the chase, was captured and was supposed to be taken to Charity Hospital.

On the way from the scene of the shooting to the hospital, the police transporting Archie, who had been injured during the incident, took twelve minutes to travel seven blocks.

When they arrived at the hospital, approximately one hundred officers were waiting for them after hearing that Hauck had died.

During this period, officers were broadcasting death threats against Archie over police radios.

Those transporting Archie, including a close friend of Hauck's, stated later that they thought there could be a lynching at the hospital where the officers continued to threaten Archie.

Instead of following department policy and taking him to another hospital, they drove him to the 1st District police station where Hauck had worked

At the station, officers claimed there was a scuffle with Archie, and that he slipped and fell.

There were no reports that might account for the numerous other injuries Archie suffered.

The station's sergeant denied ever seeing the officers or Archie and did not raise questions about the bloodstains that appeared on the floor; instead he simply ordered a trusty to clean them up.

Once they got to the hospital, events became more confused.

Archie had a cracked skull, a crushed larynx, a shattered face and too many bloody bruises to count.

Some of Archie's hospital x-rays, showing his injuries, reportedly vanished.

Medical staff were unable to determine Archie's name or his background (even though officers knew his name) and injected him with iodine for a medical test, to which he was allegedly allergic, leading some to conclude this had killed him.

Two pathologists said he was beaten to death, and it was reported that he had exacerbated his condition by pulling out tubes in his throat at some point and that the injuries to his throat prevented breathing without them.

The direct cause of death, said Minyard, was the removal of the tracheal tube.

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but I knew to stay out of the lower 9th.

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