People have to travel in packs around New Orleans because, you know, the police are going to assault them and shoot them. That’s the crisis we have in America, not the feral thug problem. That’s overblown and a myth.
NOLA-
After a string of attacks and robberies in the French Quarter, including a group attack an attempted robbery on Christmas Day, signs have appeared along some French Quarter streets urging pedestrians to find safety in numbers.
The signs, which read, “Caution. Walk in large groups,” and “We (heart) N.O.P.D. We just need more,” are the creation of a Governor Nicholls Street resident, according to a FOX-8 report.
The idea came after she heard the screams of a 43-year-old man who New Orleans police say was robbed and stabbed shortly after 10 p.m. Dec. 17 while walking in the 1000 block of Governor Nicholls, the station reports.
“It’s just got everyone upset,” she told the station. “You can’t walk at night.”
Read the full report here.
ht/ Rob E.
Ronal Serpas was the chief of police in Nashville prior to returning “home” to NOLA to be their chief. His mark on our city of one of increasing revenues and intentionally juking the Comstats.
Home burglaries became vandalism. Violent rapes became simple assaults. His son was constantly getting arrested for DUI even as he waged war on “buzzed” drivers. Since being in NO, he has been investigated a number of times for corruption and cronyism.
With him at the helm, I would not have much faith in an improvement.
I guess It’s too much chocolate, it can be upsetting at night before going to bed. If I go into Detroit, to one of the few remaining nice restaurants, I carry a 9mm in my pocket. It’s necessary for enjoying a nice evening out, when near feral animals.
I was at the SHOT Show in New Orleans ~1990 and the owner of the outfit I was working for put us up in a hotel somewhere surrounded by strip clubs. This is how bad it was: the whole Goddamned thing was surrounded by a 12 foot chain link topped with razor wire and you drove through the gate and into a central courtyard before getting out of your vehicle. There were no windows facing the outside of the establishment, only toward the courtyard.
The guy I was with traveling to the show with and I thought it was a little “different,” but it seemed OK if all you were doing was sleeping there – – – WRONG, the gunfire went on throughout the night keeping us from a decent night’s sleep.
Anyway, I mentioned this to the Olin (Winchester) people and they comped me a room two blocks from the Convention Center. That was pretty cool I thought, and we were able to walk to the French Quarter and listen to blues before turning in each evening.
The first morning I woke up there I got up and was headed out on foot to take a little walk before breakfast and when I was a half block from the hotel I heard someone running to catch up with me and yelling at me to turn around, it was the concierge from the hotel. A black man. He turned me around and told me in no uncertain terms to NEVER go anywhere alone in New Orleans if you are white except into the French Quarter and around the Convention Center. It just isn’t safe.
That was ~25 years ago
I deleted a comment I made on Serpas, the former superintendent in New Orleans. Maybe I shouldn’t have.
He resigned in August from NO but had the same issues there as he was when he was chief in Nashville. Namely, that he juked stats to make himself look better and downplayed a lot of serious crimes by recording them as something else.
Wikipedia says he didn’t investigate over 1100 rapes. I’d believe it. This is his legacy. The same way it takes a football team years to recruit new players to get the stink of losing off of them, New Orleans is going to have to root out his crooks and cronies to make that city somewhat safe again.
I went there in 2013 for a bachelor party and walked around by myself during the day. We traveled in groups to go to the cemetery and Bourbon Street at night. The post-Katrina projects that were still boarded up yet had people crawling in and out of them.
The city has a well earned reputation to live down to. As it started getting dark, I headed back as I knew I was being watched and followed.
If you don’t have good police in control of that place, it can get out of hand real quick.
why did the report not list the color of the blacks responsible for all this mayhem? Let’s be honest and truthful and IF this were a City full of white degenerates, the Media would say it with every breath x100.
Chocolate City baby…OWN IT!
Political correctness is soft fascism. The left loves it!
“People have to both pack and travel in packs around New Orleans…”
Fixed it for you.
LA. has open carry. Use it. Don’t be weak.
If no one is willing to talk the facts then nothing will improve.
It’s a cultural thing, easily solved. I did!
1994, French Quarter. Panhandling negro became aggressive and rose up in my face. Told me I needed to hand over the cash.
I punched him one inch above his nose with a 1911 and held it there. We engaged in a very quiet, very short discussion. We reached a meeting of minds.
He went about his evening, so did I. My wife was upset at what I did. Later, she admitted there was no other rational response.
Nig Orleans, stay away forever. Check.
I’m reminded of the supposed testimony of a Louisiana state representative that stated, “Mister Chairman, you know I have to drive the back roads of my district. When I do, I has me a gun in my car. But, Mister Chairman, when I goes to New Orleans, I has me TWO guns!”