Murder Rate Rises - Unimproved New Orleans

Another person is murdered almost everyday in New Orleans, making the murder rate one of the worst in the country. After Hurricane Katrina, almost half the cities previous population moved away and some will never return to New Orleans again to live. What is happening in New Orleans is just another sad chapter of what has already happened in other cities with declining populations. Many times the law abiding citizens leave a dying city for new jobs and opportunities elsewhere. The folks left behind were probably the trouble makers and criminals that always lived there, but now with a smaller population the crime rate continues to grow, in percentage terms, until it reaches critical mass.

Even without the hundreds of thousands of people who were relocated after Hurricane Katrina, the violent crime rate in New Orleans was high. Most outsiders only envision events like Mardi Gras when the City of New Orleans was brought up, but people who called this city home knew a different New Orleans that was not all about fun and games, but a place were many neighborhoods were not safe from criminals or corrupt police officers. Many of these good citizens that lived in fear because of previous problems in New Orleans decided to never return once a chance to leave presented itself after Hurricane Katrina.

Thousands of people from New Orleans were relocated to other cities like Houston and from what I have read in the local Houston news media, most evacuees that are currently living there have no intention of returning to New Orleans to live. The blame game is going full speed right now as sorry politicians on both sides of the political debate are blaming the other side for the crime problems in New Orleans. In my view, they are giving themselves too much credit and power over current events in New Orleans. The truth is that many of the good law abiding citizens of New Orleans have left which only leaves a large group of thugs and criminals to fight with, steal from and murder each other daily.

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