Violent Crime Surges in New Orleans | City Journal
For decades, New Orleans has been infamous for homicide; one bleak, dark-humor argument one might make is that the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, at least, couldn t have made things worse. After all, if the root causes of murder are poverty and lack of opportunity, from the perspective of the Left, or a lack of good policing and prosecution, from the perspective of the Right, New Orleans could hardly deteriorate further from its pre-pandemic state. Except things have gotten worse much worse and they re still deteriorating. What happened? New Orleans s purposeful effort at progressive prosecution, and its accidental experiment in de-policing, have come at the worst possible time, and in the worst place.
Yeah, it made me wonder about Tulane as a possible place to send some of the kiddos to school. But they generally preferred Cal Berkeley, with all of its problems.