An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a high-tech police force

Re:An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a... by baseballmerpeak on Friday July 31, 2015 @09:45AM (#9981695)

I worked in the Quarter for the better part of two years. The criminals are criminals; the transients are part of the character of the area. Where else in the world do you have a mix of movie stars and millionaires living alongside musicians and artists working hard to survive?

As hard as he tries, the Quarter is still in New Orleans. White washing it may make it more appealing to moneyed types and tourists, but it comes at the cost of turning the Quarter into a shell of what it once was.

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Re:An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a... by bhuga on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:49AM (#9982089)

I still live here, and I'm sick of the "Crime is part of the character" narrative. The Quarter, Marigny, Bywater, and Treme can have plenty of character without the risk of getting mugged biking home from work.

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Re:An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a... by sixothree on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:04AM (#9982188)

Still here as well and I really have some awful sounding opinions on this subject.

It's hard to ignore that in the deep south white people are afforded enormous privilege in many ways. And these gutter punks (transients) are overwhelmingly white, young, able bodied.

I wish they all go home to their white privileged families.

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