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

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Go for a walk down Canal and turn into the Quarter, anywhere. Then get back to me. Good luck

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Ok??? And that has nothing to do with the city being safer overall compared to 30 years ago. There is also live crime cameras connected to Project Nola all throughout the Quarter that have caught loads of criminals, another reason why the city is currently safer than the 90s

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but for the most part, the quarter was safe as long as you stayed from bourbon to the river.

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I have never found that area to be risky, and I was there a lot in the late 80s and back only every few years since. I cant speak to what the Quarter is like overall today, but I can say it was DEFINTIELY policed differently before bodycams and social media. It was routine for someone to get pinned by a horse against a wall for pissing in public, or just pissing off a cop, a fight was broken up with night sticks, a fight with multiple people would get a bar cleared with chokeholds and a night in jai. Basically, violence by the general public was met with a higher level of violence from cops. The you tube shite of dog cussing a cop during an interaction was not on the table. I simple insult or even threatening eye contact would've resulted in hands being laid upon you at a minimum. You want to break out a camcorder or camera during the proceedings, it was getting slapped out of your hands.

We used to be a proper country.

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We used to be a proper country

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Everything listed above is what brought the consent decree

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If I/we are out running an errand or whatever, the house is rarely locked

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What’s the benefit? It takes seconds to lock a deadbolt. I mean, if you take the time to holster a gun, why wouldn’t you take the time to push a key in and turn?

Beating and murdering citizens tends to bring consequences

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granted their freedom of speech as absolute without any consequence

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The amount of freedom granted by the Constitution shouldn't be vague.

Somehow it is though.

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No. Maybe New Orleans is different but I worked in some cities where it is much worse now then 80's and 90's but they will tell you different.

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No it’s not different. I’ve had two Nopd tell me they fudge the stats.

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In effect, suggesting that it’s more dangerous for a tourist or whitey in the FQ nowadays, but the hoods today are less dangerous?

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The crime is not centralized any longer. If you didn’t venture to certain places to buy certain things, you were probably safe back in the 90s. That’s no longer the case.

When the truth came out as to why she got hired came out, Barthelemy needed to get protection as he was out of office by this time He signed off on the exception as did Orticke, the former chief at the time of the hire. NOPD was so fricked up at that time. Len "RoboCop" Davis had just been busted for the murder of Kim Groves and another person.....and he had been running a criminal empire from behind the badge. About a month before there were the Bennie Thompson murders ( Bennie Thompson was not involved, but his wife and kid were killed....Thompson had been a Saints player). There was a lot of corruption and little supervision especially in the 7th and 5th Districts. I think that the Department had 4 chiefs in 7 years. Turnover of personnel was ridiculous. My uncle at 3rd District Uptown had told me and my cousins that if you wanted to make a lot of money as a cop legitimately that was the time to do it. Cops were routinely working 60 + hours a week because they were so short staffed. It was a mess, utter chaos until Marc Morial brought in Richard Pennington who was not from the inside to clean things up. He had been on the job about 6 months when Ronnie was killed and he had just come on right as the Davis thing was hitting.

People like to crap on Marc Morial, but Sidney Barthelemy left him a diarrhea with French bread disguised as a shite sandwich......it was that bad.

Yeah Franks was a real head case and freak show. Popped her Dad in the head and buried him under the house. She had accumulated quite the IAD file in the short time she was there but had not really received any significant disciplinary action. Len Davis had a file so thick that it was almost the size of a phone book and he had only been on the job about 7-8 years.....suspended 6 times. Ronnie had asked to no longer be paired with Franks. No one wanted to be paired with her. When that happens, you are either a dangerous incompetent or you ratted out another cop to IAD whom others liked. She was not liked. I could go on, but there is not enough space or time.

I'm not a death penalty advocate, but when it comes to Franks, I struggle with the exception. Although I know retired NOPD who want her arse alive if only to hope other inmates torment her for a long time.