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What was New Orleans like in 1994?
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:45 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:45 pm
With all the carjackings lately I was curious about what was the worst year crime wise in New Orleans. Would've thought it been the year or 2 after Katrina.
Turns out it was 1994 where 424 people were murdered. The city’s murder rate that year stood at 86 murders per 100,000 residents, the single worst ever reported by a big American city.
There's gotta be some people on here that lived through that. I want to know what that was like.
Turns out it was 1994 where 424 people were murdered. The city’s murder rate that year stood at 86 murders per 100,000 residents, the single worst ever reported by a big American city.
There's gotta be some people on here that lived through that. I want to know what that was like.
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Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:47 pm to BackdoorEddie
quote:
With all the carjackings lately I was curious about what was the worst year crime wise in New Orleans. Would've thought it been the year or 2 after Katrina.
The 12 or so years after Katrina was actually a pretty good era for Nola as far as crime goes.
It was especially good in that first year or so after.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 7:50 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:47 pm to BackdoorEddie
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Would've thought it been the year or 2 after Katrina.
Turns out it was 1994
Crime plummeted nation-wide from 1993 to 2020. A major utopian miracle. But it was barely reported on until the late aughts. (I first remember reading about it in Freakonomics.)
Too bad people didn’t appreciate those 27 years.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:50 pm to BackdoorEddie
Was just talking bout this with someone, i was in my late teens in the mid 90s, and at some times i was hyper aware of the crime and tried to be careful, and at other times i did the stupidest shite and probably went places and did stuff in NOLA that should have been the end of me.. I’m pretty sure the common denominator in my carefulness or lack thereof was alcohol .
ETA i kinda think that crime back then was mostly confined to “bad” areas, and you just knew where not to go.. whereas now i think it bleeds over a lot more to areas like the Quarter and Uptown .
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ETA i kinda think that crime back then was mostly confined to “bad” areas, and you just knew where not to go.. whereas now i think it bleeds over a lot more to areas like the Quarter and Uptown .
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This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:51 pm to notiger1997
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The 12 or so years after Katrina was actually a pretty good era for Nola as far as crime goes.
Wish Houston could say the same.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:53 pm to BabyTac
Less shitty as was most of the world.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:53 pm to BackdoorEddie
quote:
Turns out it was 1994 where 424 people were murdered. The city’s murder rate that year stood at 86 murders per 100,000 residents, the single worst ever reported by a big American city.
Gangs were a pretty big thing in Jefferson parish around that time. I was 13 at the time and I remember there was a fairly big presence of little thuggish kids at a lot of playgrounds and bowling alleys, etc.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:55 pm to BackdoorEddie
Jackson MS ended up at 99.5 murders per 100,000 this past year I believe.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:57 pm to BackdoorEddie
That was back when the projects were much more densely populated and were something like 60+ years old and just totally dilapidated. Most of them had been built during the new deal (thanks a lot FDR) and you had people crammed in living on top of each other. The public Housing in New Orleans is by and large much nicer and less dense and it’s no coincidence that even at what seems like a low point for New Orleans it isn’t as bad as when the city was basically primed for much more violence.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:09 pm to BackdoorEddie
A lot like this
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:09 pm to BackdoorEddie
If you want to see a vanished world, there is a video on YT showing a tour of a Yat neighborhood c. 1992
Just people going about their lives, walking around, doing laundry, etc... But it's like seeing ancient Rome come to life
Just people going about their lives, walking around, doing laundry, etc... But it's like seeing ancient Rome come to life
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:11 pm to Hergadoogadoo
Worked downtown at amoco. (Building next to Hyatt)…84-89… recall going to lunch at Hyatt once and yellow police tape on escalator…mid morning stabbing…
My boss was coming onto office early once to check some well logging results ( those days no computers…fax and stuff)… early around five in morning… parked next to office by hyatt… got out of car… took briefcase out of car and saw a few young men watching him… opened his briefcase and took his large pistol out and set it on his briefcase… looked over at the young men and smiled….they left
My boss was coming onto office early once to check some well logging results ( those days no computers…fax and stuff)… early around five in morning… parked next to office by hyatt… got out of car… took briefcase out of car and saw a few young men watching him… opened his briefcase and took his large pistol out and set it on his briefcase… looked over at the young men and smiled….they left
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:11 pm to BackdoorEddie
P was recording Ice Cream Man around that time.
That's all I got.
That's all I got.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:13 pm to BackdoorEddie
That’s not a surprising statistic. The violent crime rate really peaked in the 90’s after decades of a semi-plateauing. Because of a variety of factors, nationwide, violent crime rate has gone down dramatically since the early 90’s. It’s skyrocketed is once the beginning of the pandemic.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:16 pm to BackdoorEddie
The 1990’s were the worst and most dangerous time to be in New Orleans.
Really the 1990’s til Katrina.
It’s been much better and safer since Katrina.
Really the 1990’s til Katrina.
It’s been much better and safer since Katrina.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:17 pm to BackdoorEddie
I was in my last year of dental school 94-95. If I was doing lab work late at night it sounded like the 4th of July over in the St. Bernard projects. Had to step over a body under a sheet walking into school one morning. It had been dumped in the horseshoe drive early in the morning. Seemed like every weekend 8-10 people were murdered. It was bad but the population was much larger. Don’t really remember carjacking being a problem as most of the violence was confined to the projects.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:26 pm to BackdoorEddie
That’s the year my dad took me to a saints game and made a wrong turn trying to get around traffic. He joked we were going to get added to the murder total, and my 9 year old brain melted into a puddle of fear.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:31 pm to BackdoorEddie
I think that was the year a gang banger, shot up in a drive by on Tullis Dr, somehow managed to hop the fence into my buddy's backyard in Tall Timbers and started banging and yelling at his back door, all at 4 in the morning. Scared them shitless. Everyone left for the north shore, Lafayette or Houston by 1995.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:35 pm to BackdoorEddie
When I lived there during that era, everyone I knew was a crime victim. Tourists were getting murdered in the Quarter. I only dined out weekends during the day.
Cops were tough on the criminals. I had a lot of friends and family in law enforcement. There was a lot of name calling during arrest. Criminals felt disrespected and resisted. So they got beat. It was a great time to be in law enforcement. But not a great time to be a criminal.
I moved away because of the crime.
Spoiler alert: I survived.
Cops were tough on the criminals. I had a lot of friends and family in law enforcement. There was a lot of name calling during arrest. Criminals felt disrespected and resisted. So they got beat. It was a great time to be in law enforcement. But not a great time to be a criminal.
I moved away because of the crime.
Spoiler alert: I survived.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:36 pm to sneakytiger
quote:but not BR
Everyone left for the north shore, Lafayette or Houston by 1995
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