The thing to understand about New Orleans is that it’s not a very big city. There are, according to the 2020 census, 383,997 people in the city proper. New Orleans is not New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia – places where five murders in one day are somewhat tolerable.
Five murders in one day, when they’re separate incidents and not all stemming from one gang battle, for example, is evidence of a lawless, out-of-control city.
And that’s what New Orleans is.
-JD
