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re: What was New Orleans like in 1994?
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:42 pm to BackdoorEddie
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:42 pm to BackdoorEddie
There was a lot of gang war activity in the early and mid 90s around the country. Probably New Orleans too. Los Angeles was the worst. Little Rock was horrible and worse than Jackson at the time.
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Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:45 pm to BackdoorEddie
Bill Clinton got elected, and criminals suddenly felt empowered and were committing crime all over the place. Clinton’s approval ratings then plummeted, and he passed the “Three Strikes Law” to improve his re-election odds. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world these days. When Hillary Clinton later ran for president, Bill had to issue an apology for the law.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:48 pm to TheDude321
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Bill Clinton got elected, and criminals suddenly felt empowered and were committing crime all over the place.
Biden had a crime speech the other day because apparently it doesn't poll well to appear soft on crime.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:49 pm to TheDude321
The crack problem added a lot to the crime situation during this time
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:50 pm to Willie Stroker
More favorites.. my coworker had a house in Algiers point… it was starting to be rediscovered … he had iron window bars… went home one day and people crawled under his house and chopped a hole in his floor to get in… talking about it at work and a coworker asked if he could stay there a few nights.. he said sure why .. coworker said looking for excitement… he did but no new excitement… coworker use to be a SEAL..,
Last on.. another coworker lived uptown and left his car on street (unlocked cause did not want windows broken).. would just wake the bums up in the morning to get out so he could drive to work.. once saw some people messing with his car… leaned down to peek through blinds and yelled leave my car alone… heard a pop… looked at the wall behind him..dug the bullet out.. lucky he bent over…
Last on.. another coworker lived uptown and left his car on street (unlocked cause did not want windows broken).. would just wake the bums up in the morning to get out so he could drive to work.. once saw some people messing with his car… leaned down to peek through blinds and yelled leave my car alone… heard a pop… looked at the wall behind him..dug the bullet out.. lucky he bent over…
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:51 pm to BackdoorEddie
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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.
It seems popular now to bash clinton and the 90s era crime bill, but people of my vintage (40) really have no concept of crime as the major political and lifestyle issue of the day.
As noted by the poster above, we’ve enjoyed 25 years of declining crime nationwide. I don’t know nearly enough to say what role that crime bill had in bringing down violent crime rates nationwide. It will be interesting to see how crime shapes the millennial political attitudes.
As to your question, my parents handled it by moving out of uptown and into Metairie after a neighbor was murdered in her kitchen during a mid-day home invasion.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:51 pm to TheDude321
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Bill Clinton got elected, and criminals suddenly felt empowered and were committing crime all over the place. Clinton’s approval ratings then plummeted, and he passed the “Three Strikes Law” to improve his re-election odds. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world these days. When Hillary Clinton later ran for president, Bill had to issue an apology for the law.
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The crime drop occurred before any of the relevant anti-crime laws passed in 1994. And it occurred nation-wide simultaneously, so no state specific effect is correlated to the crime drop. And the crime drop occurred in other countries around the same time.
In short, there is no legislation or policy implemented in 1993-1994 that adequately explains the crime drop on its own.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:53 pm to BackdoorEddie
I’ve had family in New Orleans for 200 years. I lived in New Orleans up until 1996.
The crime was aweful in the early 90’s. Absolutely aweful. I got held up outside my house one evening at gun point. They took my wallet and car keys. Never took my car. I went in and got my second set of keys and moved the car to another spot, locked it and hoped for the best.
Next morning, the windows smashed in and steering column was torn up.
Girl living in one of my rentals was awoken one night by some dude who broke into her place . She called the cops and they never showed.
I sold everything and moved out in 1996 after so had enough.
The crime was aweful in the early 90’s. Absolutely aweful. I got held up outside my house one evening at gun point. They took my wallet and car keys. Never took my car. I went in and got my second set of keys and moved the car to another spot, locked it and hoped for the best.
Next morning, the windows smashed in and steering column was torn up.
Girl living in one of my rentals was awoken one night by some dude who broke into her place . She called the cops and they never showed.
I sold everything and moved out in 1996 after so had enough.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:53 pm to fallguy_1978
There was a running gang war in town that drove up the murder rate. But generally the “personal crimes” of car jacking, muggings, home invasions, and random violence were not as prevalent. At least that’s how I felt living Uptown.
You also didn’t have homeless drug camp under the interstates. That’s a “broken window” that adds crime and is unsettling.
You also didn’t have homeless drug camp under the interstates. That’s a “broken window” that adds crime and is unsettling.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:53 pm to ned nederlander
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I don’t know nearly enough to say what role that crime bill had in bringing down violent crime rates nationwide
See my above post.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:54 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:It's SPLC policy to avoid criminal cases b/c it alienates their suburban white liberal money base
Biden had a crime speech the other day because apparently it doesn't poll well to appear soft on crime
Instead they attack police departments and corporations as racist, etc
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:55 pm to BackdoorEddie
I was in the city in 1994. Crime was something I saw on the news.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:58 pm to BackdoorEddie
New Orleans had some very high profile crimes in the1990s like the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen massacre, the guy killed near port of call, and the lady from the north shore who worked in the cbd and who was kidnapped and murdered right before Thanksgiving. It just seemed like the city was on edge more back then.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:59 pm to BackdoorEddie
White people 60 miles away didn’t know unless they took the time to watch WWL, so many didn’t give a shite, compared to today’s world where virtue signaling is a fricking Olympic Sport.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:02 pm to BackdoorEddie
It was considered the murder capital of the world around that time. The police force was more corrupt than it is today which is saying something, but at least the majority of the murders were in certain areas, mainly the projects.
The biggest problem today is that its not just in certain areas.
The biggest problem today is that its not just in certain areas.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:02 pm to BackdoorEddie
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424 people were murdered. The city’s murder rate that year stood at 86 murders per 100,000 residents
Did someone drop a bomb? Got dayum
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:03 pm to gizmothepug
was living in Lafayette in 1994, Mardi Gras crime was so ooc around that time (I think that was the acid throwing year,) that several friends that lived in Nola asked if they could come stay with me during Mardi Gras
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:03 pm to Sisselpud81
I lived in Nola in 1998. Lead was certainly flying at the time.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:05 pm to Tdogg78
We're going to Jackson. Go comb your hair
Nvm. Trip cancelled
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Jackson MS ended up at 99.5 murders per 100,000 this past year I believe.
Nvm. Trip cancelled
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:05 pm to BackdoorEddie
The first time I visited NOLA was in 1990. I recall the cops not taking any shite - at all. They would bust your arse with the quickness. I also don't recall having any trouble in the Quarter with crime, even though we were young, drunk, stupid and had no idea where we were going.
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