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re: Panic in New Orleans: How Carjacking and Crime Upended the Next Season of ‘Queer Eye’
Posted on 1/12/24 at 3:50 am to Giantkiller
Posted on 1/12/24 at 3:50 am to Giantkiller
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It’s not 90’s level bad but not far from it.
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I disagree with you.
Correct, it's much worse now, everywhere.
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 6:06 am to Warfox
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Here’s the thing though: in the 90’s sure it was bad, but the criminal element was for the most part kept segregated from law-abiding citizens, and the tourist areas were also *generally* safe.
I lived there in the 90s and this is true. As long as you stated out of certain areas, things weren't really bad at all.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 6:12 am to deeprig9
If Latoya could be elected again they would elect her again
Posted on 1/12/24 at 7:39 am to SirWinston
Long time resident here. The entire city needs to go into a Detroit-style receivership. There is so much wrong, from the Home Rule Charter to the Civil Service rules to the elected officials, that it is literally impossible for one person to change anything.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 8:01 am to Ancient Astronaut
Don't mess with the crab people
Posted on 1/12/24 at 8:49 am to ned nederlander
quote:I agree with most of this but I think you're incorrect about Audubon Park and around the Prytania theater. I spent a significant amount of time there and they weren't places you had to avoid.
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in the 90’s sure it was bad, but the criminal element was for the most part kept segregated from law-abiding citizens,
I don’t think this is true. Crime existed throughout the city. Today, large swathes of uptown, lakewiew and midcity are pretty safe.
In the 80s/90s audubon park was not a place you would want to be. Freret, Irish Channel, area around the prytania theater, bayou St. John and most of midcity had crime everywhere. The city was much more of a checkerboard in the 80/90s than it is today
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 8:51 am
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:17 am to Jake88
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I agree with most of this but I think you're incorrect about Audubon Park and around the Prytania theater. I spent a significant amount of time there and they weren't places you had to avoid.
The strip mall around crepe nanou and st. James cheese shop was absolutely a bad area in the 80s (and I assume in the 90s). A women was stabbed to death during a home invasion gone wrong around this time, and it was quite an event.
Audubon park was fine during the day, but the black Pearl was not and as the sun went down you got out of the park.
Pretty much the entire river bend through to the garden district along the river is safe now. Lakeside or st Charles, upriver of Louisiana is safe. That was not the case in the 80s/90s
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:21 am to ned nederlander
quote:Not during the 1990s. I lived right near that strip mall. I also miss the smell of Crepe Nanou in the evenings.
The strip mall around crepe nanou and st. James cheese shop was absolutely a bad area in the 80s (and I assume in the 90s).
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:22 am to Jake88
quote:he is also incorrect about mid city - nothing ever happened - we lived off of orleans and Carrollton
I agree with most of this but I think you're incorrect about Audubon Park and around the Prytania theater
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:24 am to GreenRockTiger
quote:I figured he was referring to the area around Mona's. During the 1990s, it was crappy.
he is also incorrect about mid city - nothing ever happened - we lived off of orleans and Carrollton
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:29 am to Jake88
quote:I guess - I had some friends that lived on Palmyra back there, we just didn’t know any better
I figured he was referring to the area around Mona's. During the 1990s, it was crappy.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:32 am to deeprig9
quote:As far as tourism goes, you can’t go to Bourbon after dark.
It's a shame too, NOLA used to be a cool town, at least to visit. Now it's not even a cool town to visit. It's Jackson MS with jazz.
All the NO natives claim that you just have to know where to go.
Tourists come for the tourist areas, and those areas are dangerous as frick now.
My wife and I’s first trip together was to NO back in 2017. She, being from Florida, had never been there.
I refuse to take her back until the citizens of that dump fix it.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:45 am to TheMT83
NOLA was fantastic after Katrina. For a while.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:21 pm to Jake88
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Not during the 1990s. I lived right near that strip mall. I also miss the smell of Crepe Nanou in the evenings.
Hard to really say without crime maps, so I guess we can disagree. We sold our house next to current st James cheese shop in 1992. Crime then (and the preceding decade) was much more spread around uptown.
Current crime maps show almost no one getting murdered from the black Pearl down to the garden district river side of st Charles, very few in midcity, and almost none running from uptown into broadmoor between carrolton and Louisiana.
The murder map in the late 80s/90s did not show that.
None of this is to say crime isn’t atrocious in the city today, especially car burglary and jacking. But violent crime against people is more localized to pockets of the city today than in tbe 80s-90s
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:43 pm to OldmanBeasley
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The gay mafia is about to start dropping bodies.
The Mauve Hand ain't no joke...
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:44 pm to GreenRockTiger
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incorrect about mid city - nothing ever happened - we lived off of orleans and Carrollton
Midcity includes big chunk of banks and Tulane avenue? That was safer in the 80s-90s? That area along banks by Finn mccools was pretty rough in my recollection before and through the first few years after Katrina.
I lived behind mandina’s a couple years toward banks 2008-2010 and had to move after a girlfriend was mugged right outside our place.
Our New Orleans, you really are a perpetual shithole
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